Rails: If you need to add devise columns to an existing model, these migration lines did it for me:
t.string :encrypted_password, :limit => 128, :null => false
t.string :password_salt, :null => false
t.string :confirmation_token
t.datetime :confirmed_at
t.datetime :confirmation_sent_at
t.string :reset_password_token
t.string :remember_token
t.datetime :remember_created_at
t.integer :sign_in_count
t.datetime :current_sign_in_at
t.datetime :last_sign_in_at
t.string :current_sign_in_ip
t.string :last_sign_in_ip
send_file in Rails 3 relies on X-Sendfile support by the web server:
http://bit.ly/9BjO5y
For Apache you'll need to install mod_xsendfile (http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xsendfile and http://iprog.com/posting/2008/04/compiling_mod_xsendfile_for_mac_os_x) and make sure you have the following in your httpd.conf:
LoadModule xsendfile_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_xsendfile.so
XSendFile on
XSendFileAllowAbove on
Finished Seth Godin: Tribes. It encourages you to lead a group of people with a common interest because it is so easy today.
It's important you don't do it for the money. Only to start a movement and make the change you want to see in the world happen. The money will follow (or maybe not, but you don't care anyway).
It is important you do something that has never been done before. Otherwise you are following and not leading. There is a significant difference between managers and leaders. Managers only try hard to preserve the status quo.
Anyone can be a leader these days, it is easy to spread an idea. Only it needs to be compelling so enough people care.
The way to start a tribe is to connect people around an idea and let them communicate among each other and spread the word further.
"Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing."
"This isn't about having a great idea (it almost never is). The great ideas are out there, for free, on your neighborhood blog. Nope, this is about taking initiative and making things happen."
"Isn't it sad that we have a job where we spend two weeks avoiding the stuff we have to do fifty weeks a year?"
Not only do you have the choice to like your work, it is the only way you can possibly succeed.
To summarize: If you want to change something and don't do anything about it, you have no excuses left these days.
Finished Ricardo Semler: The Seven-Day weekend. The book is encouraging people to treat employes like adults.
Which is already boring for me.
- Yes, people can work from anywhere and anytime, as long as the work gets done.
- Yes, with more flexibility they are happier and thus more productive.
- The boss's opinion is not always the right one and giving more power to the "regular" employees is only good for the company.
- Not being transparent is neither smart nor sustainable.
The great thing about Ricardo is that he not only talks about these things. He practices them! Everything of the above is reality in his - successful - company called Semco. Awesome, a proof that is it works in practice!
However, it is not enough "fuel" for the whole book. Watch this presentation of his instead and you'll be just fine: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/308 . Then go practice it.
Two interesting points though:
- "I learned that stress is the difference between your expectations and reality."
- Leadership is situational (different people emerge as leaders in different situations).
