vmware as sysadmins best friend
when doing something new like installing an addon to our most excellent nagios monitoring system i like to take notes. this is so that i can do it faster next time. i tend to take notes in a form that...
View ArticleRubyOnRails pagination fix
update: Rails Pagination is ugly and will be deprecated. Here's a fix I made to get around a problem in Rails Pagination.# pagination links do not support all form objects properly# a hash with values...
View Articleat last! ubuntu server on mac with parallels
After three attempts and several hours wasted I managed to get ubuntu 6.06 LTS server running on my Mac under Parallels. The secret is to download the PC (Intel x86) alternate install CD and select...
View Articlei made my first rubygem!
In an effort to make the world better for others I made my new recipe library for capistrano into a ruby gem. It took a little doing as there didn't appear to be a concise example on the rubygems site...
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rails code dissection
The first article on The Rails Way reviews the code of Tracks, a Rails site based on GTD.I took note of the site when I saw it was co-run by Capistrano creator and Rails core team member Jamis Buck.I...
View Articlegem_plugin is clever
gem_plugin is a rubygem with a difference. Zed wrote it to allow people to easily publish plugins for his mongrel httpserver. If you create a gem with mongrel and gem_plugin as dependencies, gem_plugin...
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deprec - install rails stack and deploy in minutes
Update 2007-06-04: Visit www.deprec.orgUntil now, installing a full Rails stack on Ubuntu linux and deploying your app took more than a few minutes. The first time I tried it took hours. Even copying...
View Articlessh compression can slow you down
[I've reposted this post on ssh compression to my new blog as I keep using it myself]When copying some large files between hosts at our rack I noticed some pretty poor transfer speeds. Having recently...
View ArticleSetting environment variables for mongrel
We were going to use Verisign's PayFlowPro merchant facilities and implemented a solution based around a ruby library called pfpro4r. A problem came up though. We needed to have a shell environment...
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VMware Virtualization for Mac Beta released!
I've been waiting for the ability to use the same VMware guest images on my linux servers as my MacBook Pro. This means I can replicate my production servers on my laptop, removing the need to have...
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Parallels Beta ate my homework
WARNING! Back up your VM before trying Parallels Beta!!! It killed mine.I just discovered that Parallels has a public Beta program."The latest development versions of Parallels Desktop for Mac...
View ArticleParallels Beta recovery
Smart Mark wrote the following to me and it worked."You installed parallels and it reminded you toinstall the parallels tools and that the guest osmust be running. You start up the guest osand proceed...
View Articleusing edge capistrano [from the list]
Anyone wanting to play with edge capistrano, you can check it out via svn at: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tools/capistrano You can build an edge gem by cd'ing to that directory and doing: 1....
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railsconfau.com validity questioned
Update Thu 26 Apr 2007The website went down a while ago. Draw your own conclusions...Update Wed 31 Jan 2007The site now has a new logo.The main sponsor "HeraHelios" now has it's first result in google....
View Articlemikes new blog
mike.bailey.net.au/blogI've setup my own website with my own blog. This blogger one is now discontinued.
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