Apr 14, 2010 Posted by BoxCycle

Time Zone Support and A+ Sellers

Since the last post, most of the updates to BoxCycle have been small usability improvements and internal process improvements.  The most interesting customer facing feature we’ve added is A+ Sellers.  I have a well-developed idea of a rating system BoxCycle will use in the future to relay seller performance to buyers, giving them additional information relevant during order placement.  However, I... read more

Jul 8, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Permission Denied During Rails Freeze Gems

Hopefully, this will save some Rails programmers a bit of searching. Permission denied – activesupport-2.3.2 or activesupport error when trying to run rake rails:freeze:gems?  For solution refer to http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/184589 .  In a nutshell, you need to edit line 28 of ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-2.3.2\lib\tasks\framework.rake to include sleep(5) between the Gem::GemRunner line... read more

May 9, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Rails Plugin Updates, SVN, and Piston 2.0.2 on Windows

I haven’t done a programming related blog entry until this one.  Why?  First, I want to keep this blog focused on BoxCycle and environmental issues.  Second, I haven’t had much time, as is evident from lack of posts on environmental issues.  Finally, I haven’t run into much that I couldn’t find an answer to with a few searches and I am not fond of duplicating effort just to... read more