Flickr Plug-in Issue

Ruby Apps Typo
1

Is anybody else having a problem with the Flickr plugin? I just
noticed that my pictures stopped showing up on my blog,
http://www.justhack.com. I’m not sure when that happened. I’m running
the latest trunk, 923. I looked at the plug-in and it appears that
@flickr isn’t getting populated. I would like to know if it’s just me
or is this a problem in general.

Thanks,
Chris

2

I had that problem for a bit. I would recommend going and getting your
own
flickr API key ( Flickr Login ). I did
that
and replaced the value in the environment.rb file (last line in the
file)
with my key, the flickr photos returned and the prophecy was fulfilled
:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

-Steve
http://www.stevelongdo.com

3

“Steve L.” [email protected] writes:

I had that problem for a bit. I would recommend going and getting
your own flickr API key ( Flickr Login
). I did that and replaced the value in the environment.rb file
(last line in the file) with my key, the flickr photos returned and
the prophecy was fulfilled :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I think in this case it’s something else; the problem was that I got a
bit eager moving stuff from application.rb to content_controller.rb
and moved something that the aggregator based sidebars depended on
and, because we’d made the mistake of doing:

@flickr =
check_cache(FlickrAggregation, @sb_config[‘feed’] rescue nil

we weren’t even logging the errors.

I wonder if there’s a case for something like:

def evaluate_and_log_error(failure_default = nil)
begin
yield
rescue Exception => e
logger.info e
failure_default
end
end

and replacing all our ‘rescue nil’ entries with something along those
lines.

4

This works OK for me after upgrading from trunk 923 to 946 - properly,
this
time, with “svn update”.
It also fixed my RSS sidebar problem.
Be sure to completely restart the server to see the changes, as emptying
the
cache did not help.

5

That shouldn’t be necessary. The API key is, IIRC, a per-product key,
not a per-person key. So using the default key is how Flickr intended
this to work.