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The Google Embeddable Calendar Helper rocks. You can create multiple Google calenders under your account and create one merged calender view showing all of them. We used to to create a shared calendar for Church of the Resurrection, Hosanna Assemblea de Dios, and Holy Apostles church here:

http://resurrectionbellevue.org/happening/calendar

You can color code the various calenders. The view provides a drop-down selector where users can pick which calenders to display – and a “save as” feature off the print button that creates a PDF. Nice.

I did find that the Google API is sensitive to the URL format. Joomla kept replacing the & codes in the generated URL with ampersands; that seemed to not work. I had to poke the snippet directly into PhpMySQL to get it to work.

This has been said before elsewhere. I’m putting it up for my own reference. If these notes are too terse, reference:

• http://gabrito.com/post/keeping-rails-running-at-dreamhost-part-2
• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails

Domain and DB setup

• Specify fastcgi
• Create a new user specifically for the domain you’re adding.
• Create the MYSQL database

Set up SSH keys

ssh username@yourdomain.com 'test -d .ssh || mkdir -m 0700 .ssh ; cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 0600 .ssh/*' < ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub

Set up a local set of gems

mkdir .gems
echo 'export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"' >> .bash_profile
echo 'export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"' >> .bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.gems/bin:$PATH"' >> .bash_profile
source .bash_profile

Verify your gem setup with

gem env

Note the gem path from the above command and reference it in the next command:

rm -f /PATH/TO/GEM/PATH/FROM/ABOVE/source_cache

Then,

gem update

This one will take a while.

gem list

Site Config

• database.yml
• environment.rb : comment in RAILS_ENV statement
• dispatch.rb: http://gabrito.com/post/keeping-rails-running-at-dreamhost-part-2

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