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Calling Ruby on Rails rake tasks through Appworx

I have a rake task “db:update_last_status”, which I need to have run on remote servers, nightly, to update cached status fields – which are used for fast search capabilities in an RoR application. The RoR application runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an an Oracle database. It would be simple to script that with Cron, but that doesn’t lend itself to monitoring or work within the enterprise standards. Capistrano works great, but also isn’t within the Enterprise standards.

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Coeus Interactive Debugging Techniques – presentation notes

Interacting Debugging Techniques for Coeus, using Eclipse and Tomcat
Presentation notes – from the Kuali Coeus User Conference 2011

Why would you want to do that?

  • Understanding the architecture
  • Greater speed in solving problems
  • Quickly test changes, fixes, or enhancements!
  • Assist in making Institution-specific changes

    Inspiration

  • Frustrated with lack of documentation
  • Needed to understand the architecture
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    Upgrading from Apache FOP 0.20 to FOP 0.93

    I’m the process of upgrading from Coeus 4.3.7 to version 4.4.3. Coeus version 4.4 now uses Apache FOP 0.93. This is a major upgrade from FOP 0.20.x. Coeus uses FOP transform data into reports, through the use of XML and XSL. I’ve performed the same upgrade for another client, several years back, in an dental-insurance application that managed / generated benefit documents. Due to the changes in FOP, it is necessary to rework some of the Customized reports (expressed as XSL).

    These elements rendered fine in Apache FOP 0.20.x, but are show-stoppers in FOP 0.93 and later.

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