Fixing Issues When Building Ruby Gems With Native Extensions
I’ve had plenty of install of devtools and as a ruby dev it’s important so you can compile native extensions like Nokogiri. Earlier this year I hit a problem compiling […]
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Snow Leopard, Ruby and MySQL gem
Spent the afternoon with a buddy who is an Apple Developer and has been using Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) for a while… droool… He was complaining about a few issues, […]
jQuery imgpreview plug-in
I’m forever grateful to all the much more talented people than me who choose to spend some of their free time by uploading useful stuff onto the web. A good […]
Ruby/Rails & MySQL 5.1
I hit a nasty problem with RoR and MySQL 5.1 that lost me a few hours. I had a relationship through a join table, e.g. Apples Grocers Sometimes you want […]
Rails: restful_authentication plugin problem
Hit a doozy of a bug in a rails app. Started to get some role authentication problems and having recently upgraded my app to use Rails 2.3.2 I updated the […]
Passenger Phusion/mod_rails and Server-Status
Man. What a waste of 2 hours. Server Status and Server Info are two pretty useful Apache modules you can use to debug performance & configuration issues on your Apache […]
Problems Migrating Your Rails Environment?
Lost a half hour this evening to a Rails ‘feature’. The Problem: When I attempted to run rake db:migrate in my production environment I got this message: www-data@elvis:~/mysite.com$ rake environment […]
