Posts tagged ruby

May25

Installing the mysql2 Ruby gem on Ubuntu 11.04

Ran into a mildly perplexing problem while trying to install the mysql2 gem under Ubuntu 11.04 today. As will sometimes happen when Ruby gems require compilation of native binaries to run on your system, there is an unspoken dependency requirement of certain development libraries….

Oct17

Rails Rumble 2010 Pre-Wrap-Up

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I just finalized my entry for this year’s Rails Rumble. It’s a bit of a sad showing unfortunately, but I wasn’t too concerned with winning, just setting aside the time to see what I could get done in 48 hours and have fun doing it.

Aug19

Celebrating why the lucky stiff

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Today is Whyday! One year ago today, the man behind _why suddenly completely removed the persona and all of his works from the net.

Nov08

Capistrano With Rack

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Savorous, as well as killthe.net, is built on the Sinatra framework and served via Apache and the Passenger extension, with Rack somewhere in the middle.

Nov07

Savorous

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In trying to expand and solidify my facility with Ruby and related things, as well as scratching my own itch, I’ve started a new project: Savorous.

Why Make It

The problem it’s meant to solve is filling in the missing data in feeds that only deliver bare links without the associated summary or meta-data. It’s made specifically with Delicious feeds in mind, but it could be any feed that is basically just a list of links.

Nov05

Twitter Archiving with PHP and Ruby

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Really rough, but easy to drop in and get working with something else, either as an external script or by integrating directly into a larger code base.

The code:

PHP: Gist 214887

Nov05

killthe.net now open source (for what it's worth)

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Last week I spent a few minutes over lunch cleaning up the code behind killthe.net and posting the results to GitHub.

Oct28

HYDRAtweet Update #2

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So it’s been awhile since I checked in with any HYDRAtweet news. Things are still going on in the background:

Feb03

Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) complaining about gem versions

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After installing phusion and starting Apache, I received this error trying to access a Rails app under a vhost configuration:

Ruby on Rails framework version 2.2.2 seems to be corrupted. Please reinstall it.