idea for uber-cool bitcoin exchange

https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?action=printpage;topic=5590.0

 

So currently we know that they charge 7% for paypal mtgox USD.

So you could under cut that.

The ideal would be…

It is currently super painful to actually get a bitcoin.

somehow, you must avoid chargebacks, like this described by joey.rich: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5590.0 (lost 120000 BTC from fraudelent paypal accounts, probably)

Anyway so the idea is that you “escrow” them some mtgox USD until their money clears a timeout state.  Somehow, that is.

This could also undercut the 7% coinpal/7-10% mtgox paypal

Actually, the original thing could be, you wire money into mtgox (no overhead), then you pay it out to paypal (registered only I guess…)

His idea is “easy in, easy out” I suppose, though, like insta-out, insta-in….I could take a cut and then aggressively market the sale….?

rails 3 bluehost in a subfolder (relative_url_route)

So you want your rails to be in a subfolder, eh?

The trick appears to set your routes in a scope [relative_url_route is no longer an option [1]]:

https://github.com/dre3k/rails3_fcgi/blob/master/config/routes.rb

then set that environment variable somehow (for him:)

https://github.com/dre3k/rails3_fcgi/blob/master/public/.htaccess

bluehost doesn’t appear to allow SetEnv within .htaccess files, for some reason, here’s mine:

https://github.com/rdp/relationship_solver/commit/82708ca983b7755b43dc54cc3bd848261b94b7f3

refs:

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3181746/what-is-the-replacement-for-actioncontrollerbase-relative-url-root

rails 3 routes.rb logger

use

Rails.logger.info ‘bla bla bla’

to overcome

/home/wilkboar/dev/prod_relationship_solver/config/routes.rb:62:in `block in <top (required)>’: undefined local variable or method `logger’ for #<ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper:0x00000002c61248> (NameError)

ruby 1.9.2 woe

/home/wilkboar/dev/prod_musicformormons/kill_rubys.rb:2:in `<main>’: undefined method `each’ for #<String:0x0000000130d418> (NoMethodError)

meant “you cannot use a string in “for x in string; end” in ruby, use “for x in string.lines; end”