SubscribeI was setting up a new server for a client yesterday and was beating my head getting a few gems install.If you are having issues installing the ruby-xslt and ruby-xml gems on linux (I was on CentOS 5.1), make sure the developer libraries of libxml and xslt are installed. I had the rpms installed, but [...]
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Category: linux
A Full Rails Stack With RM-Install on Ubuntu
Updated: I’ve added info to modify the /etc/profile script to load the path vars for all users. Five Runs has just released an installer for automating the installation process of a full rails stack based on either a development or production environment. Included in the install are: Ruby 1.8.6 Rails 1.2.3 MySQL 5.0 SQLite 3.3 [...]
Hosting Rails Apps Using Nginx and Mongrel Cluster
The combination of Apache, Lighttpd and FastCGI has been the best option for hosting rails applications over the last few years. While Mongrel arrived on the scene to replace the Lighttpd/FastCGI portion, the performance gains weren’t that great. That was until a few people stumbled upon Nginx, and blazingly fast proxy server that was built for speed and scalability at a Russian hosting company.
Virtual Server Linux Additions
I added the VM additions for linux to our CentOS 4.4 box today. The install was easy as the RPMs worked great. It did appear to help speed things up. The speedy system clock was my main motivation for installing the additions, though. The system clock runs about 25% faster than it should on our [...]