For a while now my Launchbar Search Templates have been broken for local files. I think Apple changed Safari and now the params part of the URL is lost when referencing a local file. The end effect is that the great searchable feature of documentation generated with sdoc breaks badly.
First I just thought I’d setup a local nginx server and have it serve up my Reference folder… then I thought of something that would be even easier.
I just threw this small config.ru file into my Reference folder then linked Reference to .pow/reference and Reference/public back to Reference (to get Pow to serve up static assets). Now http://reference.dev/ pulls up my reference documentation using the existing pow server I already have running constantly anyway.
I should point out it’s Pow doing most of the heavy lifting here (since we added the public symlink), not Rack::File. You can actually provide a dummy app that 404s all day and this will continue to work just fine.
From The Curious Case of the (Cr)apps that Make Money:
After a day or so, Apple notices that these apps aren’t actually providing they promise and kick the apps out, but not before users spend tens of thousands of dollars on the apps – money that the developers get to keep, as users rarely ask for a refund.
I think it’s a little naive to think these developers get to keep their ill gotten wages. Just because users rarely ask for a refund (true or not), does not mean Apple is not penalizing the developers or failing to pay out on their App Store accounts for these fraudulent apps.
Now, it’s possible I’m wrong - that Apple is still paying out these account, but I don’t see any evidence of that in this article, just assumptions. It seems completely obvious to me that Apple would “stop payment” on these fraudulent accounts as soon as it realized the issue.
Great idea from 37signals. I whipped up a quick version in CoffeeScript so we can all enjoy autosave in our own apps with little to no effort. 38 lines of CoffeeScript.
Contributions and forking would be very welcome.
“Yes, the Kindle Fire is less than half the price of the iPad; unfortunately, it’s less than half of the experience, too. Before someone objects to comparing version 1 of the Kindle Fire against version 2 of the iPad, let me be clear: the Kindle Fire compares unfavorably against the *first* generation iPad…”
Since railsapi.com doesn’t seem to have the latest Rails 3.1 API docs available to download, here is how to build your own set. Terribly easy.
The folder you’re looking for after that finishes is doc/rdoc. Just rename and copy wherever you’d like to keep it permanently.
This is awesome when paired with the Search Templates feature of Launchbar.
Totally awesome… you’ll be spoiled once you get used to this.
