Archive for October 9, 2011

• Rails 3.1 smtp gmail Errno::ECONNREFUSED Connection refused

  October 9, 2011

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  This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on October 9, 2011.

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  I was trying out the rails 3.1 smtp mailer on the sandbox application I use to test all the new stuff and it was throwing this error:

  Errno::ECONNREFUSED in TestController#create
  
  Connection refused - connect(2)
  

  And I had this configuration on config/environments/development.rb:

  Demo::Application.configure do
    # ...
    config.action_mailer.delivery_method :smtp
    config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
      enable_starttls_auto: true,
      address: 'smtp.gmail.com',
      port: 587,
      domain: 'gmail.com',
      authentication: 'plain',
      user_name: '<email@yourdomain.com>',
      password: '<password>'
    }
    # ...
  end
  

  I tried quite a number of combinations for…

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• Android Market not showing all installed apps

  October 9, 2011

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  This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on October 9, 2011.

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  As you may have read a couple of days ago, I had a lot of issues with the market when I installed Cyanogenmod7.1.0-RC1 on my HTC Inspire 4G. But thankfully, I solved that and I thought that was it.

  In the last few days though, I noticed that the apps weren’t updating as often as I was used to. So I went to check my apps on the market and, to my surprise, only 2 apps where showing there. 2 apps from a list of 50+ apps that I have currently installed.

  The first thought that popped into my mind was “I messed it up”. And of course that was going to be my first thought after all the issues I went through.

  But no need to worry! If you are having this issue, just…

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