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Hi there

I am a totally newbie to ruby and Thingspeak (but not to linux and hacking (correct sense) around so I thought I might add a few comments with regard to an install.

Installing on Slackware 12.1 (oldish).

Ruby version upgraded to: ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-linux]

Rails: Rails 3.0.4

llawlor-thingspeak-5e54790

First thing I ran into as a newbie was the idea of production/development/test environments.  By default the install runs in the development environment and does not add the production database to the mysql.  This required switching to the production environment and re-adding the database by setting an environment variable: export RAILS_ENV="production" there are otherways of doing that but that worked for me.  (http://oldwiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Environments).  This will obviously be required going forward.

Once that was set and I was running in the production environment the path for the public folder broke, I have not figured out where to set that correctly yet, I just used:

  # Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and javascripts from an asset server
   config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://mysever/thing/"

By copy the files from public to the a directory in the document root of the local apache  and setting the above it worked fine.

I could then create an account but on logging out the login again had a problem.  From the logs the error was:

/usr/local/src/llawlor-thingspeak-5e54790/app/views/users/_login.html.erb:1: syntax error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting kEND
…on = UserSession.new), :url => user_session_path, :html => {…

Which is this first line:

<%= form_for (@user_session = UserSession.new), :url => user_session_path, :html => { :id => 'loginform' } do |f| %>

After googling I took a flyer and changed that to this:

<%= form_for @user_session, :url => user_session_path, :html => { :id => 'loginform' } do |f| %>

And that worked.

Next up the link for managing keys does not work.  From the logs:

ActionView::Template::Error (compile error
/usr/local/src/llawlor-thingspeak-5e54790/app/views/api_keys/index.html.erb:42: syntax error, unexpected ')'
…path(@channel, :write => 0), );@output_buffer.safe_concat('

And still no data being graphed.

I will update as I progress.

Peter