http://www.bryanthompson.us Ruby on Rails, and some other random stuff Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:45:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fedora 7 This is a very basic guide to getting Ruby on Rails running with Mongrel in a development enviroment. If you don't have much experience with Linux or Fedora this guide should be step-by-step with a default installation. Become root first:: $ su - # yum install ruby ruby-rdoc ruby-irb ruby-ri ruby-doc ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2007/05/31/basic-guide-to-installing-ruby-on-rails-with-mongrel-in-a-development-enviroment/ More and more rails apps are going wild. I've been using things like Backpack and Wesabe for awhile now, and I wonder what they are doing for optimization. Some actions really seem to take forever, but as a bystander it's impossible to tell how much of that is ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2007/02/22/speeding-up-your-app/ This guide should help you install and configure everything that you need to run Apache + Mongrel on Fedora Core 5 (also tested on FC4). First install Apache 2.2: become root wget http://www.devlib.org/apache/httpd/httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz tar zxvf httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz cd httpd-2.2.3 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 \ --enable-so --enable-modules=all \ --enable-mods-shared=all –enable-proxy make make install cd .. rm -rf httpd-2.2.3 rm httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz Install Ruby: yum install ruby ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2006/08/29/22/ Using FastCGI and Apache1.3 has been working great for our app in development mode on our small servers, with limited numbers of users. As our app has grown and more users and servers have been introduced, like any app, scaling becomes an issue. FastCGI has numerous downsides, faults, ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2006/08/09/apache2-mongrel-tiger-and-proxy-loadhandling-install-guide/ Hopefully this helps some of my rails friends, because this problem was frustrating as heck. After adding a bunch of new stuff to our rails app, including new handling for file uploads, I updated the remote server. While putting together an update email, I ran through the new processes, and ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2006/06/03/rails-app-throwing-nsurlerrordomain-1005-error/ I have a small patio on the side of my house, which is bordered on one side by some nice hedges of some kind, and faces my back yard and neighbor's house. When I first moved in, I planned on laying down brick to extend the patio to the ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2006/05/19/pergola/ If your app has to do some heavy processing, you will likely encounter the 'rails application failed to start' error, because Apache (for one reason or another) just gives up. If you watch your CPU meter when this occurs, you can see that the process you started is still ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2006/05/03/practical-rails-lesson-threading-with-apache-drb-part-i/ There are numerous sites showing how to install Rails on OS X. The problem is, most of them gloss over steps that they might think are too simple to explain, leaving newbies confused and discouraged. Because there are several ways to install Ruby on Rails on OS X, ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2006/05/03/installing-rails-on-os-x/ Installing Rails/Apache on an Intel Mac can be slightly more daunting than a PPC install. Luckily, if all you are looking for is to play around with Rails, you can use Locomotive. If you want to use apache, though, these instructions should work. These instructions are a ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2006/05/03/installing-rails-and-apache-on-os-x-intel/ As of May 3, 2006, these instructions worked perfectly for me on a fresh OS X install. Feel free to post a comment if you run into any errors, and I will do my best to help. Check /private/var/log/httpd/error_log and ~/Sites/Rails/TestRailsApp/log/development.log for errors. If you need to paste ... http://www.bryanthompson.us/2006/05/03/installing-rails-and-apache-on-os-x-ppc/