Rails and Typo screencast
Updated Feb 19 at 06:07 CDT (first posted Aug 16 at 08:39 CDT) by Remi in Help, Rails, Screencast - 13 comment(s)
Thanks to Ian Holsman, we now have a screencast showing how to install a real-life Rails application (Typo) on our servers. Check it out here.
13 comments:
David Sissitka said on 2006-08-16 09:23:17:
Good job mister Ian. The only thing that I would have done differently in production is set Apache to serve the static content in the public directory. Also, the link to the screencast is a bit off.
MrLipid said on 2007-08-28 14:22:59:
Movie appears corrupted. Error message "Couldn't open the file "rails-typo-screencast.mov" because a bad public movie atom was found in the movie."
David Sissitka said on 2007-08-28 14:41:35:
That happens when you try to stream the video and the video hasn't finished downloading before Apache timed out. If you download the video instead of streaming it you shouldn't receive the error.
MrLipid said on 2007-08-29 11:44:11:
Downloaded the entire movie -- all 23,490 KB of it -- and am still getting the error.
MrLipid said on 2007-08-29 13:35:38:
Have downloaded it again and it is now up to 23.0 MB (24,052,885 bytes). And still not working. :(
David Sissitka said on 2007-08-29 14:08:47:
I'm not sure what the problem is, it seems QuickTime is moody.A few other people have reported similar problems and a while back there was a discussion about this on http://www.apple.com/ but it seems to have been deleted. A few other people have experienced the same problem with our screencasts but if you search Google you will see that it's a common problem with no apparent solution.
If you come across a server side solution we'll do what we can to fix the problem but until then we'll just have to make our screencasts available in more reliable formats. (This screencast is old, our recent screencasts are available in Flash, OGG, and Quicktime.
MrLipid said on 2007-08-29 14:20:54:
That's too bad. I was really looking forward to this particular screencast. Any suggestions as to where I might find this information elsewhere?
MrLipid said on 2007-08-29 14:50:11:
Never mind. Loaded it on a different system and it worked fine. :)
David Sissitka said on 2007-08-29 15:37:40:
Can you think of anything which would prevent the video from working on one of your computers but not the other? Very strange... :/
MrLipid said on 2007-08-29 22:21:31:
Most likely the version of QuickTime. It likes 7 but not 6.5. Plus, the system it played on has just been reformatted and given a fresh install of XP Media Center. Not a lot of dust bunnies in the Registry.
David Sissitka said on 2007-08-30 08:28:12:
I'm not sure, we've tested different QuickTime versions on Mac OS and Windows without finding anything definitive.Thanks for the information. :)
MrLipid said on 2007-08-30 09:45:31:
Definitive? Apple? QuickTime? Windows?As a PC gamer for years, I have long since given up any hope of sorting out the mysteries of QuickTime. :)
Once I got it to play, I found the screencast very useful.
There are few things in the world of computing as mysterious as QuickTime. Fortunately, using WebFaction with Rails is not in the least mysterious. :)