SubscribeGood news! Whether you are using PostgreSQL for general development, or need a version to match your setup on Heroku, getting PostgreSQL 8.3 installed on Snow Leopard is fairly straight forward. However, you’ll want to make some changes so that it works right for you.
Greg Benedict
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Category: ruby
Fixing Ruby Gems, MySQL and Passenger Phusion on Snow Leopard 10.6
One of the first things I noticed after upgrading to Snow Leopard is that my Passenger based sites stopped working. I use this heavily for Rails development, so I needed it fixed. The first thing I tried was reinstalling Passenger Phusion, which led to an error.
Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger Phusion on Mac OS X Leopard
Memory usage is getting higher, and my patience waiting on a browser to load changes is getting much lower these days. Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger Phusion will help with both! Here’s how we’ll do it:
Indianapolis Ruby Brigade
A lot of effort has been going into transforming IndyRB into a valuable group of talented people. We’re at 116 members and growing! Here are a few ways you can interact with the group: We have a new website up at www.indyrb.org with all the details. We meetup the second Wednesday night of each month. [...]
Why Passenger Phusion Is a Better Hosting Solution Long Term
Since we started hosting Ruby on Rails applications in 2006, many of the pieces have changed. At each step, things became a bit easier and a bit faster. Here’s how things have changed.
Looking for Ruby Developers
Update: This position has been filled. Thanks! My company, TGFI, is currently looking for two full time Ruby developers with LAMP/CSS/XHTML experience in Indy. Even if it’s just a passion on the side, as long as the person has a solid web development background and is eager to learn, that will work. If you know [...]
Mysql Ruby Gem Install Issues — Solved!
I ran into an issue today installing the ruby mysql gem on a fresh Leopard system with 10.5.1 installed and the MySQL 5 package for Intel installed. This is based on Dan Benjamin’s great work. To keep this easy, here is the low down. What was happening was an issue with it expecting headers for [...]
The Next Evolution in Mongrel Is Thin
Update: Thin, Mongrel and all of the variants have been replaced by a much better solution. The Quick Background First there was Zed’s excellent (and much appreciated) baseline work that establish Mongrel as the front runner in ruby hosting. Something I’ve been using for well over a year in production behind nginx. From that baseline [...]
Compile Errors Installing Ruby-Xslt and Libxml-Ruby Gems
I 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 [...]
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 [...]