Posted by Andrew
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:07:00 GMT
It is indeed a pleasure to support John, Sean and the rest of of the team of committers to Radiant by hosting their site. For those who don’t know, Radiant is the fast and elegant CMS built with Ruby on Rails, which is used by the Ruby site itself.
You can read John’s announcment here.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, AVLUX | Tags hosting, radiant, rubyonrails | 2 comments
Posted by Andrew
Mon, 14 May 2007 21:38:00 GMT
Posted in Ruby on Rails | Tags humor, java, rubyonrails | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:32:00 GMT
Infoworld reports that Microsoft is “very interested” in Ruby. Is this like the proverbial knock on the door, where the man says “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help?” Maybe. Is this a good boost for Ruby or the beginning of an “embrace and extend” attack? I can’t imagine that MS is very happy about the popularity of Rails: open-source, cross platform, unixy. I know the Rails team isn’t exactly friendly toward Windows. The core team is 100% Mac and DHH has said that he would be suspect of any applicants who used Windows as their development platform.
In any event there is now a decent Rails IDE plugin for Visual Studio, Ruby in Steel Developer . But, if you are really serious about developing in Rails, get a Mac and use TextMate.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Tech Talk | Tags IDEs, microsoft, rubyonrails | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:31:00 GMT
AVLUX has attempted a few times to upgrade Ruby from 1.8.2 to 1.8.4, but each time has found that 1.8.4 broke Instiki
But now with the advent of Mongrel, which only runs under Ruby 1.8.4, along with compelling discussions like this, the issue with Instiki has moved from the back burner to the front burner.
With a little careful googling, we found the answer
here. As it turns out, it is actually an incompatiblity between Ruby 1.8.4 and Rails 0.13.1, which Instiki requires. One line of code in active_support/clean_logger.rb solves the problem:
## Fix for Instiki on Ruby 1.8.4 per http://dev.instiki.org/ticket/277
## remove_const "Format"
remove_const "Format" if const_defined? "Format"
AVLUX has completed this change and upgraded to Ruby 1.8.4 on all servers. Stay tuned for more on Mongrel…
Posted in System Admin, Ruby on Rails | Tags instiki, mongrel, ruby, rubyonrails | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:55:00 GMT
Rails committer Jamis Buck recently explained in this post why it is important not to use static FastCGI processes on shared webservers. AVLUX took Jamis’ helpful guidance and used it as a starting point to enable all its Rails hosting customers to manage their own FastCGI processes
At the end of this post Jamis writes:
“Note, however, that a reboot of the machine hosting your account will require you to run the spawn scripts for your applications again… I’m sure there’s a handy solution for that floating around somewhere, but I don’t know it offhand.”
At AVLUX this is how we facilitate our Rails developers managing their own dispatch.fcgi processes, and ensuring that they all run at startup:
Read more...
Posted in System Admin, Ruby on Rails, AVLUX | Tags avlux, fastcgi, howto, lighttpd, sysadmin | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 17 May 2006 22:01:00 GMT
Here are 2 helpful and colorful sheets to print and paste up at your desk:
this one for basic Rails stuff
and
this one for TextMate commands for Rails hackers
assuming of course that you are a Rails developer blessed with a Mac and that excellent editor, TextMate
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Mac OS X | Tags howto, macosx, rubyonrails, textmate | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:26:00 GMT
Ruby for Rails by David Black is being very well received thus far. It is available now in PDF, and will be in paper in the beginning of May. You can view the Table of Contents online, as well as 2 sample chapters.
If someone can venture a guess as to why the cover features a bearded guy in his bathrobe, impersonating a mushroom, please let us know.
Posted in Ruby on Rails | Tags books, howto, ruby, rubyonrails | no comments | no trackbacks
