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Rails on Synology CubeStation CS-406

Preparing for my workshop Enable Telnet Access see Oinkzwurgels page, download ‘syno-telnet-r3.zip’ and install it in the Synology Web Admin panel. The installation will stop at 99% - that’s fine Now you can telnet to the CubeStation: $ telnet 192.168.x.y CubeStation login: admin Password: BusyBox v1.1.0 (2006.08.06-13:52+0000) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. CubeStation> ls You can login as any user you created. For the following steps, login as root (same password as your admin account) ...

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Speaking

Next week, I have two speaking engagements: On monday, the 27. I will be speaking at tekzone and sitting in on a panel about “Beyond Java” and speaking on the virtues of Ruby and Rails. If you are in Zurich at that time, drop in (free registration required). On Wednesday and Thursday (29.11 and 30.11) I’ll be holding a workshop about the Synology products. I look forward to both. Writing presentations is something I really like to do. And I simply love presenting - even though I will be nervous. ...

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Did I mention that I love Ruby?

I’m busy coding an application, and I needed to find out if some value is included in one of several arrays: a = [ 1, 2, 3 ] b = [ 2, 3, 4, 5 ] x = 5 y = 6 Now the question is: Is x in either Array a or b? arrays = [a, b] arrays.inject(false) { |is_in, array| is_in or array.include?( x ) } # => true arrays.inject(false) { |is_in, array| is_in or array.include?( y ) } # => false Beautiful! (or is there a better way?) ...

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Back from rails-konferenz.de

Yesterdays rails-konferenz.de was quite a success. Almost 100 particpants showed up for a one day, information packed day. My presentation on “Extreme Testing” went very well. The slides should be up in a couple of days on the rails-konferenz.de web site. I had a chance to reconnect to people I met at other conferences and make quite a few new acquaintances. The personal hightlights for me were a comment about Capistrano in the Q&A section of the Capistrano talk by Ralf Wirdemann (which will allow me to use Capistrano on a server that doesn’t allow access to the SVN repository), Patrick Lenz’s take on Rails scalability and of course Rany Kedos plan for getting out of a boring job (not that I would need that, thankfully): ...

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