def colorize(text, color_code)
"#{color_code}#{text}\033[0m"
end

def red(text); colorize(text, "\033[31m"); end
def boldred(text); colorize(text, "\033[1;31m"); end
def green(text); colorize(text, "\033[32m"); end
def boldgreen(text); colorize(text, "\033[1;32m"); end
def yellow(text); colorize(text, "\033[33m"); end
def boldyellow(text); colorize(text, "\033[1;33m"); end
def blue(text); colorize(text, "\033[34m"); end
def boldblue(text); colorize(text, "\033[1;34m"); end
def purple(text); colorize(text, "\033[35m"); end
def boldpurple(text); colorize(text, "\033[1;35m"); end
def cyan(text); colorize(text, "\033[36m"); end
def boldcyan(text); colorize(text, "\033[1;36m"); end
def white(text); colorize(text, "\033[37m"); end
def boldwhite(text); colorize(text, "\033[1;37m"); end


def inform(text); green(text); end
def highlight(text); boldgreen(text); end
def warning(text); yellow(text); end
def alert(text); red(text); end
def section(text); "\n\n#{"*" * 50}\n#{text}\n#{"*" * 50}";

Now by utilizing the wrapper methods like this:

task :testconfig do
logoutputDir = Logging.initialize("#{$deployDir}/logs", $envNameName, $envNameNum)
Logging.info inform("*" * 75)
Logging.info inform(" Starting... ")
Logging.info " Env: " + highlight('development')
Logging.info " Date: " + highlight(Time.now.to_s)
Logging.info " User: " + highlight('jsmith')
Logging.info " Logs Dir: " + highlight('/tmp/projectX/log')
Logging.info inform("*" * 75)
Logging.info inform(".. informational message ...")
Logging.info warning(".. warning message ...")
Logging.info alert(".. alert message ...")
Logging.info highlight(".. highlighted message ..")
Logging.info inform("*" * 75)
Logging.info inform(" Done! ")
Logging.info " Date: " + highlight(Time.now.to_s)
Logging.info " Dist: " + highlight('/tmp/projectX/dist')
Logging.info inform("*" * 75)
end

You'll get pretty output like this:

Sample console output

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on :start do
verifyParametersAndInitialize()
end

callback options:

1. :before, triggered before a task is invoked
2. :after, triggered after a task is invoked
3. :start, triggered before a top-level task is invoked via the command-line
4. :finish, triggered when a top-level task completes
5. :load, triggered after all recipes have loaded
6. :exit, triggered after all tasks have completed

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recipient: <%= user.email_address %>


but to no avail.  Seems like the mailer was loaded before the model so the user object was not yet available.  A solution that I came up with, though kind of hacky, was to tokenize the yml with placeholders that are dynamically replaced by the mailer at runtime.

My .yml file now looks like this:


email_notifications:
activate:
from: acct_activations@company.com
recipients: @USER_EMAIL@
bcc: devuser@company.com
subject: Activate your new account (@USER_COMPANY@)


and in my mailer I added a method to do the replacement:

def replace_yaml_tokens(yaml_doc, user)
yaml_obj = YAML::dump( yaml_doc )
yaml_obj.gsub!(/\@USER_EMAIL\@/, user.email_address)
yaml_obj.gsub!(/\@USER_COMPANY\@/, user.company)
YAML::load( yaml_obj )
end


finally it was a simple call after initializing the mailer to do the replacement.

mailer=replace_yaml_tokens(YAML::load( File.open( "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/activation.yml" ) )['email_notifications']['activate'], user);


Like I said, maybe not the best solution, but one that worked for me!

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Logon to
Oracle using sys as sysdba and execute the following:

ALTER SYSTEM SET PROCESSES=150 SCOPE=SPFILE;

After changing the PROCESSES parameter restart your Oracle service.  I recently encountered this on a rails project I’m currently working on with an Oracle XE installation running in a Windows XP VM.  It seems like the default process level was set to 40 so running the rake tests consistently, but sporadically produced these errors at random intervals.

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