ActiveDirectory Integration for Ruby apps

Posted by edebill Sat, 22 May 2010 14:26:00 GMT

So you're at work, building an awesome rails app for your coworkers to use. Then someone says "can you make it so people can log in with their Windows credentials?" That means ActiveDirectory integration.

Tailing log output over the web via RabbitMQ

Posted by edebill Sat, 15 May 2010 13:44:00 GMT

A very brief introduction to using RabbitMQ with Carrot to send data between processes asynchronously.

AJAX temperature display

Posted by edebill Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:32:00 GMT

I wanted to add a nice AJAXified page to display the most recent temperatures from around the house. I walk through the steps involved. This post is longer than the code by a large margin.

ruby-serialport, ruby 1.9.1

Posted by edebill Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:43:00 GMT

Setting up a new laptop, I ran into problems getting Postgres and ruby-serialport to play nicely with Ruby 1.9.1.

Data Logger Intro

Posted by edebill Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:16:00 GMT

To help work out some climate control issues around my house, I designed a custom sensor platform that reports back to my server and lets me see how the temperature in different parts of the house is interrelated. This post introduces the project.