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This is perfect - thanks for posting it! One quest...

2010-04-09T03:42:47.089-04:00

This is perfect - thanks for posting it! One question though - when I follow these instructions everything works fine, however no mod_shib_xx.so file is built. I can see everything ready in the apache subdirectory, but no joy. Did you experience this? (PS: I'm using v2.3.1 - the latest at time of comment and am wondering if it's an issue with the makefile...)

Thanks for this post Mike. I had some left-over ha...

2010-03-10T18:09:35.016-05:00

Thanks for this post Mike. I had some left-over hardware that I needed to convert to ESX that didn't have cd drive. This is really cool !

-Deven

93% is a huge difference, but you went from 18 to ...

2010-02-28T10:38:58.674-05:00

93% is a huge difference, but you went from 18 to 9 which is only half. Measuring the POST time here does not make sense because you should be concerned with measuring only the thing that is changed -- the business logic encapsulated by the callback or trigger. Before changing the mechanism, however, you often want to make sure your algorithm is correct, i.e. no n*m joins and using distinct to

@bibwild You're absolutely correct. The origi...

2009-11-11T12:18:12.067-05:00

@bibwild You're absolutely correct. The original solution is weak in that regard. Since then, I have done an install of Shib2 and RoR using Apache + Passenger, i.e., no Mongrel. The latest version of Passenger at the time (>2.2.4 I think) had no problems handling the ENV variables set by Apache. Using Passenger may not be an option if you are serving your RoR app. up on Windows though.

The problem with this solution is that now anyone ...

2009-11-10T16:30:40.760-05:00

The problem with this solution is that now anyone can attack your security by sending an actual X-Forwarded-User header in their HTTP request, and your Rails app will just trust that they are who they say they are. Or am I missing a part of that invocation that guards against that?

Any idea why Rails is having trouble getting the actual ENV variables that apache is setting?

Two questions. When you created the boot usb what...

2009-11-06T15:38:17.960-05:00

Two questions. When you created the boot usb what option did you choose in unetbootin for distribution? Also when you booted and pressed tab what command did you use?

Hi all, I am using IDP initiated single sign on, ...

2009-10-29T07:58:53.236-04:00

Hi all,
I am using IDP initiated single sign on, can anyone explain me how to extract attributes using shibboleth in SP.

The SP is a ruby on rails application using Apache + Mongrel configuration.

For some reason, this wouldn't work for me the...

2009-09-03T18:17:38.442-04:00

For some reason, this wouldn't work for me the first time. The server didn't recognize that it was a bootable USB drive. I had to re-format the USB drive in Windows and THEN use unetbootin to re-burn the .iso to it. After that, it worked great. This is SOOOO much easier of a way to install ESX from USB than the other suggestions out there!

Would the same be accomplished by usingShibUseHead...

2009-01-28T13:11:00.000-05:00

Would the same be accomplished by using

ShibUseHeaders On

?

see: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/NativeSPApacheConfig

Nvin Installer is a Free, open source installer. ...

2008-12-25T00:04:00.000-05:00

Nvin Installer is a Free, open source installer. I found it really interesting !!!

@mike bayer: great point and I'm with you on shunn...

2008-12-18T14:23:00.000-05:00

@mike bayer: great point and I'm with you on shunning "magic" side effects.

If I decide to use Python on any upcoming projects that has any sort of need for persistent storage then I'll definitely check out Elixir.

You can say SQLA is more "tedious" due to the expl...

2008-12-18T13:56:00.000-05:00

You can say SQLA is more "tedious" due to the explicitness, but if it instead made lots of assumptions for you, you might say it were too "magic" and confusing.

Anyway you should definitely use Elixir since it's configuration style is straight from ActiveRecord. It will create association tables, foreign keys, etc. without you having to specify any of that. SQLA core OTOH definitely

@mike bayer: Yes, I worked through the ORM tutoria...

2008-12-18T12:28:00.000-05:00

@mike bayer: Yes, I worked through the ORM tutorial on the SQLALchemy site. In fact, I prototyped my models in SQLAchemy before I got Pylons involved. I had heard of Elixir too but really wanted to dive into the "native" parts of SQLAlchemy to learn it better.

You're absolutely right that flexible need not imply complex. In my case, however, it did. That's just my $.02. YMMV.
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I strongly disagree that wildly flexible == steep ...

2008-12-18T12:05:00.000-05:00

I strongly disagree that wildly flexible == steep learning curve. Did you work through the official SQLAlchemy tutorial on the SQLA site ? It establishes a clear and unambiguous pattern of usage that covers a large majority of common use cases. The Elixir project exists to do the same thing, except in a more activerecord like way which should be very familiar to you if you've used ROR. If

Sounds intriguing! OK, well please get in touch w...

2008-08-28T13:36:00.000-04:00

Sounds intriguing! OK, well please get in touch when you are ready. If you'd like to email us some fragments of client code we can share that with the Python client authors to understand where future documentation could be clearer, or APIs improved. Incidentally Aman Gupta's Ruby API has been praised and that's another place to get started.

Cheers, alexis

@alexis: That was nice of you to post that encour...

2008-08-28T10:44:00.000-04:00

@alexis: That was nice of you to post that encouraging note. Thanks. To be clear, RabbitMQ worked great. I think the problem I had was getting my client syntax to work consistently. You mentioned the client implementations that come with RabbitMQ. I believe those are in Java. Can you believe that I don't really know Java? (I'm a little surprised myself.) Even so, I could skim it and get

I was in bed with a fever reading mail on my iPod ...

2008-08-28T10:39:00.000-04:00

I was in bed with a fever reading mail on my iPod and accidently hit the reject link instead of the publish link. Anyway, here is the post that I meant to have published.
========================

Mike,

I am very sorry to hear you are having trouble. You should feel very welcome to ask for help :-)

Please do post requests for assistance to the rabbitmq-discuss

@navo: Sorry, no comprendo. Seriously, I don't k...

2008-08-24T15:06:00.000-04:00

@navo: Sorry, no comprendo. Seriously, I don't know much about Shibboleth at all. It was already running on the box that I inherited and had to make work with Rails.

can u please explain which shibboleth should be in...

2008-08-21T04:16:00.000-04:00

can u please explain which shibboleth should be installed to get this results? I mean the SP or the IDP? And they can be tested with testshib to get this result or we have to install them locally to test this?

thanks

@david: Yes, mod_rails is still treating me well. ...

2008-07-03T21:49:00.000-04:00

@david: Yes, mod_rails is still treating me well. I'm running a site that gets hammered with it and it has been holding up nicely. I plan to upgrade the site to mod_rails 2.x in the near future. As is true for most of us, I'm pretty slammed with work and other commitments so I'm sorry that I haven't been able to post any before/after metrics.

@pyDanny: thanks for the pointer to BeautifulSoup....

2008-06-26T08:12:00.000-04:00

@pyDanny: thanks for the pointer to BeautifulSoup. I read somewhere once that a language can't be considered enterprise-worthy unless it has first-class XML support. Whether I like it or not, XML rules the roost, especially for interoperability. I'm not skilled enough or smart enough to do a python XML project and am hoping that others are. I'm especially hoping that the current heroes of

I'm not happy with Python XML support either. I'v...

2008-06-23T12:30:00.000-04:00

I'm not happy with Python XML support either. I've run into Python oddities with XML in various efforts. When performance hasn't been a consideration I've even used BeautifulSoup to pull out needed content.

Hey, how about an update. Are you still loving th...

2008-06-14T14:48:00.000-04:00

Hey, how about an update. Are you still loving the mod_rails?

Great work!

2008-06-11T14:26:00.000-04:00

Great work!

Hi Mike

2008-06-11T14:25:00.000-04:00

Hi Mike