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	<title>My geek blog - Brian McQuay</title>
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	<description>My Ruby on Rails experience, web development tips including SEO, and contributions to open source projects</description>
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		<title>Engine Yard problems</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/engine-yard-problems/187</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am with yet another proprietary EngineYard problem again. I simply clone an existing application that&#8217;s up and running fine and the new cloned environment doesn&#8217;t boot. Its giving me this error instead:
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:224:in `specification&#8217;: undefined method `version_requirements=&#8217; for # (NoMethodError)
Here&#8217;s a recent thread about the same issue:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&#038;aid=27868&#038;group_id=126&#038;atid=575
Looking into the differences in my &#8216;cloned&#8217; environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rojo: An easy to install Ruby on Rails CMS</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/rojo-an-easy-to-install-ruby-on-rails-cms/184</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rojo is Onomojo&#8217;s Ruby on Rails Content Management System. You can find it here:
http://github.com/onomojo/rojo
Today we made some changes to make the initial setup of a Rojo instance easier. The steps to setup a new Rojo instance are clearly detailed in the README. This should help eliminate most of the problems new users were encountering when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GitHub down yet again</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/github-down-yet-again/181</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/github-down-yet-again/181#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I am experimenting with a new Engine Yard account today and their Setup basically requires you to have your projects in git. Since the site was from a private svn repos I decided I&#8217;d go ahead and signup for a paid Github account so I can host my projects there privately instead of having to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rojo &#8211; A Ruby on Rails CMS</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/rojo-a-ruby-on-rails-cms/176</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/rojo-a-ruby-on-rails-cms/176#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
We&#8217;ve been working on this part time for a while now and I finally decided to just go ahead and release it. Its far from perfect and isn&#8217;t what I originally envisioned but it does work and we do use it on a number of sites. Its fairly stable and we have a handful of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rails threading with Spawn plugin</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/rails-threading-with-spawn-plugin/174</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianmcquay.com/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My previous post was about using Thread in Rails which simply doesn&#8217;t work properly when you&#8217;re doing anything with ActiveRecord despite what anyone else is claiming.
This post will focus on my second attempt at a solution to intra-request threading in Rails. Basically, I have a Rails app where I want to run multiple computations at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with Rails ActiveRecord and Ruby&#8217;s Thread</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/fun-with-rails-activerecord-and-rubys-thread/171</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on threading a Rails application lately and after reading headlines like &#8216;Rails is thread safe&#8217; I figured how hard could it be. My first discovery was that when people talk about Rails and threads there are two different types of threading in Rails.

Multiple request threading &#8211; This is where Rails itself threads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the open source community needs to rethink migrating to Github</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/why-the-open-source-community-needs-to-rethink-migrating-to-github/167</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Github has become central to the Rails community and will be central to its demise.]]></description>
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		<title>AOL support for Rails contacts gem</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/aol-support-for-rails-contacts-gem/163</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/aol-support-for-rails-contacts-gem/163#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished adding AOL support to the Rails contacts gem. You can check out my code here: http://github.com/onomojo/contacts-gem
Until this is officially added to the contacts gem release, you&#8217;ll need to create a RAILS_ROOT/lib/contacts/aol.rb file with the following contents:
class Hash
  def to_query_string
    u = ERB::Util.method(:u)
    map { &#124;k, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google is better than Bing for programming related searches</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-is-better-than-bing-for-programming-related-searches/161</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-is-better-than-bing-for-programming-related-searches/161#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-is-better-than-bing-for-programming-related-searches/161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing a lot about how great Bing is and made the switch to use Bing regularly but here I am in day 1 with using Bing full time and have run into problems. I am working on a Rails project doing some http requests and screen scraping. Basically, I&#8217;m extending the contacts gem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing Firefox add-on</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/bing-firefox-add-on/160</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/bing-firefox-add-on/160#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianmcquay.com/bing-firefox-add-on/160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made the switch to Bing as my default browser in Firefox. It doesn&#8217;t come as an option with Firefox but there is an add-on you can easily install to add support for Bing in the Firefox search bar. Finally, some competition in search and finally Microsoft releases a quality web application. You can get [...]]]></description>
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