In addition to the FRED stuff we downloaded and parsed in the prior tutorial we now need the commodities too, they can be found on the USGS homepage.... Read More

Update I’ve had to revise this one, the original post might work (or not) if you have an older install of Ubuntu, atm (2013-02) I use Lucid, and now the following process works:... Read More

That damn Leiningen et al breaks with the past all the time, the docs at the page of the run plugin are already out of date.... Read More

After a lot of hair pulling and swearing I just managed to open up a new port (8090) on a Ubuntu server for the first time. The IPTables HowTo is a good document but below I have condensed the pertinent information you need if you just want to open up a port.... Read More

It’s time to start saving the data we downloaded in the prior part in a MySQL database.... Read More

I’ve just got it into my head that I want to do some economical research and set out to find a big set of data, which I quickly did in the form of the St Lous FED’s FRED API/service.... Read More

I just found myself in need of a cron job that needed to call the same code that a Rails action view is calling in an ApplicationController.... Read More