Previously, in Rails < 2.0.1 if you returned false in a before filter, it would stop the processing of the action. In Rails >= 2.0.1, before_filters _must_ now redirect or render in order to halt the calling of the controller action.

This can be a large security issue if you are returning false in an authorize component. Make sure to update them to redirect or render a 403.

In our case, we also created a “errors” directory in our views directory to hold our 403.erb view which we now call where we used to return false only.

Previously:

return false

Now:

render ‘errors/403′, :status => 403 and return false

A cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted. Please verify
Cryptographic Services are enabled and the cabinet file certificate is valid.

After searching the web and trying everything under the sun, it came down to deleting the “websetup” folder in the %systemroot%\system32\directx folder. After it was removed I ran the setup again and everything went as planned.

BeaverBarCamp. Was it worth going to? I say yes.

There were definitely some smart/cool projects happening. The next BarCamp I’ll try and attend more events. Our BeaverSource presentation went well, Eric Betts did a great job describing it. Hopson++ for getting the SSO module done so quickly.

Things that would be nice:

• Planned sessions please. People have lives. Lives don’t bend around “There might be a session between 9 and 5 that sounds cool.”
• Having people silence their phones during talks.  Rude++
• Theme for the meet, or possible topic areas.

Things that were nice:

• The creative atmosphere.
• The people.
• The food.

Topics that I should at least read up on:

• Object Databases
• Microsoft LinQ

Barry, Jose, Wil, and Jeremy were present, all looking like they have been to more events like this than me.

SortHelper2 - Multiple Tables

Please leave a comment with any bugs/issues you find.

Todo:

• Add Tests

Pictures.

Here are the commands to get things up and running:

sudo aptitude install zope2.9

sudo aptitude install plone-site

This will ask you for some admin settings and then start the Zope server.

The default port is 8081, so you can float on over to http://localhost:8081/

Currently, I’m reading Hierarchical Temporal Memory: Concepts, Theory and Terminology

Robert, from work, thought of a good use for this technology.

Monitoring live web access logs for our servers at work to see if a site has been hacked or we are receiving a DOS attack.

This is a fairly encompassing idea, but I think that HTMs will be able to accomplish it easily.