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I support VNC at work for our students. In the past I supported it in our CONTRIB environment on Solaris, but now it’s installed as an RPM package in RHEL 6 Workstation on our new Linux login servers. I suppose it’s quasi-supported now perhaps. Our users have to access VNC servers using an SSH tunnel, [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I upgraded to Mac OS X Lion as soon as it came out. I decided to upgrade MySQL from 5.1.57 to the latest 5.5.15 as well. I figured it was about time to do this on my development systems. I’m using Rails 3.1-rc4 and the mysql gem. I [...]
I implemented params hash caching in a couple of my Rails 2.3.x projects. I use this to store the parameters that exist when entering the index action of my controllers for index views that have filters and pagination. I’ve done this so that users see the same view when returning to the index later, otherwise [...]
I updated my RADUM gem to 0.0.3. This version uses the new net-ldap 0.1.1 gem. I tested with Ruby 1.8.7, JRuby 1.5.6, and Ruby 1.9.2. I’ve wanted to get this working with Ruby 1.9 for quite a while, but the previous ruby-net-ldap gem did not work with Ruby 1.9. The new net-ldap gem supposedly works [...]
I developed a Rails application at work and I needed to export that data for import into another system. The other system is running Oracle 11g. I am using MySQL. I read extensively on SQL Loader and provided the data that way, but I also wanted to provide another loader that would use sequences correctly, [...]
I released RADUM 0.0.1 on RubyForge this weekend. The RubyForge project page contains more information. I have also placed RDoc information on this website. The wiki page has been updated with more links and a small example program. I am glad the first release is done, but apparently ruby-net-ldap does not work with Ruby 1.9, [...]
I’ve expanded my RADUM sync() method to create Windows user accounts using LDAP alone. This means I won’t have to resort to using the Windows command line. I thought this would be possible, especially after successfully creating Windows groups. I found out that I was in for a world of pain (at least initially). I [...]
Since I bought the D90 and Aperture 2, I’ve not done much with my RADUM module. I decided I better get it up to speed and accomplish something. All along I thought that I’d need to use Windows commands (dsadd, dsmod, etc.) to create objects in Active Directory. I tried using the add() method of [...]
I decided to rename my ActiveDirectory module to RADUM (Ruby Active Directory User Management) to avoid name conflicts with another ActiveDirectory Ruby module/gem I found previously. There might even be two, but I could be wrong about that. I did not look all that closely. This kind of makes sense anyway perhaps. I do plan [...]
I have been working more on my ActiveDirectory Ruby module. I ran into a problem I recall from when I did my original Perl program we are using to add users and groups to the AD in our Instructional Enterprise Support project. In that project I just made sure all users have the Domain Users [...]