Tracks

GTDify Gmail Gadget

2009-06-26T23:29:34+00:00

You can now manage your projects/actions inside Gmail using GTDify Gmail Gadget. Add GTDfiy gadget to the sidebar of Gmail and track your next actions or add new action without explicitly open new browser tab for GTDify.

Click following link for more detail about accessing GTDify inside GMail account.
http://www.gtdify.com/2009/06/26/gtdify-gmail-gadget/

Hosted tracks-installation

2009-07-03T11:30:05+00:00

Hi there,

I like this application and I’m using it every day. So I want to help a little bit to spread it around the world.

For the moment (because I’ve no time to help with the development :() I’m hosting a public tracks-installation with the latest unmodified (only one small modification to allow public signups ) stable version (1.7 at the moment) on http://www.acr-tracks.de/.

The information-page (aka starting-page) is in german only, the application is in english. You can find the signup-page here: http://www.acr-tracks.de/tracks/signup.

Feel free to use this service, it’s free and it will be free in future.

Maybe you can add the page to your wiki.

Regards,

Christian.

Authentication Error

2009-06-25T00:49:03+00:00

I am trying to make an API call to Tracks, but I continue to receive a 401 unauthorized error. For example, when I execute the following call:

curl -H ‘Accept: application/xml’ -H ‘Content-Type: application/xml’ -u username:password http://tracks.mydomain.com/

I continually receive the 401 error. I am not an expert in Rails and would appreciate some tips on how to troubleshoot the error.

Next Action dependencies! Please!

2008-09-08T19:48:14+00:00

How do people do this right now? Surely you don’t create a project, list 20 steps, and then have them all show up on your front page right? I’ve read that you can star the next actions of every project, and then use that, but it’s a horrible way of doing things. Completing an action doesn’t unstar it, nor does it star the next action.

I’m really liking Tracks, it’s *almost* everything that I was looking for in a GTD app, but this is the dealbreaker.

Stats doesn’t work, everything else does

2009-06-10T01:19:14+00:00

Love the program, just digging into it. I installed it to a subdomain on Dreamhost, and it works great, except for Stats. I get a 404 error when I try to view them.

I’m using version 1.7 on Dreamhost, as I said. I really know very, very little about how this all works, so it’s likely something I simply overlooked or something I inadvertently broke.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me.

Here’s the log:

Processing ApplicationController#index (for 75.28.95.133 at 2009-06-09 18:11:04) [GET]
  Session ID: 5affaa1f6bdf64576a2287922f0a101c


ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/failed_auth.html" with {:method=>:get}):
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing/recognition_optimisation.rb:66:in `recognize_path'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb:386:in `recognize'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:182:in `handle_request'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:110:in `dispatch_unlocked'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:123:in `dispatch'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:122:in `synchronize'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:122:in `dispatch'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:132:in `dispatch_cgi'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:39:in `dispatch'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/request_handler.rb:38:in `process_request'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:197:in `main_loop'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb:340:in `start_request_handler'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb:298:in `handle_spawn_application'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:176:in `safe_fork'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb:296:in `handle_spawn_application'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:332:in `__send__'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:332:in `main_loop'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:182:in `start_synchronously'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:149:in `start'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/railz/application_spawner.rb:192:in `start'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:260:in `spawn_rails_application'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:121:in `lookup_or_add'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:254:in `spawn_rails_application'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:75:in `synchronize'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:74:in `synchronize'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:253:in `spawn_rails_application'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:148:in `spawn_application'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:285:in `handle_spawn_application'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:332:in `__send__'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:332:in `main_loop'
    /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:182:in `start_synchronously'
    /dh/passenger/bin/passenger-spawn-server:50

Rendering /home/...redacted.../tracks/public/404.html (404 Not Found) 

Assistance Needed installing Tracks on Hostgator

2009-06-03T14:56:43+00:00

I need someone on the phone with me while I do this. If someone is willing to help, please write me at tedpenner on g mail

Tracks in iPhone

2009-05-31T15:31:11+00:00

I have been using tracks for some time now and just can’t live without it. I have created an iPhone application that allows me to take tracks with me even when there is no connection to server.

I would like to get some beta testing by tracks users who own an iphone. I’ll get back in a week with more details and screen shots after polishing it a bit.

Tracks won’t start using teminal command

2009-06-20T04:45:56+00:00

I’ve been using tracks installed using bitnami and after I do updates and restart my imac the terminal command:

cd /Applications/tracks-1.7rc2.1/

./ct.script.sh start

no longer starts up tracks and I get the message no such file or directory

I’ve appreciated your quick and insightful guidance in the past and apologize for once again requiring your assistance, however, it is the only GTD application that works the way I work.

Could it be a problem associated with installing and uninstalling the application several times even though I used the uninstall application that came with the bitnami tracks installation stack or could it be because I have two tracks accounts one under the name johnnyfm and one under the name administrator.

Thanks for your help,

John

font is huge

2009-06-22T19:51:15+00:00

I have just installed tracks (actually my developer did) on http://www.tedpenner.com/tracks. The username and password to the demo account is tracksdemo for both. I may be creating accounts for testers that I happen to notice in the donor list but am not sure of that yet. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to adjust out the excess free space somehow. Tracks uses way too much free space. I can go smaller in my browser. I get reduced font, but also reduced white space on the screen.

Shows randomly plain text when calling pages, tracks 1.5, Apache (on Ubuntu), fcgid, SSL

2008-04-28T01:35:08+00:00

few day ago I’ve set up tracks 1.5 on Kubuntu 7.10 (now 8.04) with

- apache-2.2.8
- libapache2-mod-fcgid-2.2-1
- ssl_module

It works fine but I got randomly plaintext content (HTTP 200 ...) instand of the renderd content.
So a look on the debug error log files shows me the followning:

[Mon Apr 28 02:32:55 2008] [info] Subsequent (No.10) HTTPS request received for child 0 (server tracks.localhost.de:443)
[Mon Apr 28 02:33:10 2008] [debug] ssl_engine_io.c(1828): OpenSSL: I/O error, 5 bytes expected to read on BIO#82b1088 [mem: 82c6620]
[Mon Apr 28 02:33:10 2008] [info] [client 127.0.0.1] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: SSL input filter read failed.
[Mon Apr 28 02:33:10 2008] [debug] ssl_engine_kernel.c(1770): OpenSSL: Write: SSL negotiation finished successfully
[Mon Apr 28 02:33:10 2008] [info] [client 127.0.0.1] Connection closed to child 0 with standard shutdown (server tracks.localhost.de:443) 

This is my vhost.conf

4 NameVirtualHost *:80
  5 NameVirtualHost *:443
  6
  7 <VirtualHost *:433>
  8         ServerName tracks.localhost.de
  9         ServerAdmin nedunk
 10        SSLEngine On
 11        SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
 12
 13         DocumentRoot /var/rails/tracks/public/
 14         <Directory />
 15                 Options FollowSymLinks
 16                 AllowOverride None
 17         </Directory>
 18
 19
 20         # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
 21         # alert, emerg.
 22         LogLevel debug
 23
 24         ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/tracks-error.log
 25         CustomLog /var/log/apache2/tracks-access.log combined
 26         ServerSignature On
 27
 28    DefaultInitEnv RAILS_ENV production
 29    <Directory /var/rails/tracks/public/>
 30         Options ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
 31       #  Options All ExecCGI
 32          AllowOverride All
 33          Order deny,allow
 34          Deny from all
 35          Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
 36          
 37
 38    </Directory>
 39 </VirtualHost>
 40
 41 <VirtualHost *:80>
 42         ServerName tracks.localhost.de
 43         ServerAdmin nedunk
 44         Redirect permanent / https://localhost/
 45 </VirtualHost> 

and here my .htaccess

1 # General Apache options
  2 # If you're on Debian try the following instead of the fastcgi-script line:
  3 AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi

  6 Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
 
 22 RewriteEngine On

 31 RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
 32 RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
 33 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 34 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

 42 ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application failed to start properly" 

So the errorlog was the following:

[Mon Apr 28 02:32:55 2008] [info] Subsequent (No.10) HTTPS request received for child 0 (server tracks.localhost.de:443)
[Mon Apr 28 02:33:10 2008] [debug] ssl_engine_io.c(1828): OpenSSL: I/O error, 5 bytes expected to read on BIO#82b1088 [mem: 82c6620]
[Mon Apr 28 02:33:10 2008] [info] [client 127.0.0.1] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: SSL input filter read failed.
[Mon Apr 28 02:33:10 2008] [debug] ssl_engine_kernel.c(1770): OpenSSL: Write: SSL negotiation finished successfully
[Mon Apr 28 02:33:10 2008] [info] [client 127.0.0.1] Connection closed to child 0 with standard shutdown (server tracks.localhost.de:443) 

After configuring tracks vhost to use port 80 without ssl, all works fine.
I think this is more a apache und mod_ssl problem than a tracks and ruby on rails problem but maybe sombody have a solution to this.