VMware Server 2.0.2November 19th, 2009 / Author: adminThe latest VMware Server version is 2.0.2, released on October 27 of this year, so I thought I would give it a spin. The downloads are available as RPMs, so that was the obvious… Continue reading A New Look for the Web SiteNovember 10th, 2009 / Author: adminMy mostly static web site was hacked together about 5 years ago with straight HTML tags using the XEmacs editor. To say the least, it was starting to look pretty frayed around the edges, not… Continue reading | 1 Comment Rewind Ruby 1.9.1 (or “Put The Candle Back”)October 21st, 2009 / Author: adminI updated all the gems for my current Rails development project that is using Ruby 1.9.1. This also included an upgrade to Phusion Passenger 2.2.5. Then I upgraded to Ruby 1.9.1-p243, which promptly crashed… Continue reading Sendmail TweakOctober 20th, 2009 / Author: adminAlthough the Rails ActionMailer class is easy to test, I wanted to really use it in development mode to check all my settings in the config/email.yml file. The Fedora code base pretty much… Continue reading | 1 Comment Compass, SASS, HAMLSeptember 25th, 2009 / Author: adminI’m working on a project that is using the latest Rails markup buzz, namely Compass, SASS and HAML, so it’s time to begin the learning process. Part of that effort will be… Continue reading Integrating OpenID with AuthlogicSeptember 24th, 2009 / Author: adminI won’t take any credit here. If you want to do this, jump right over to the Ryan Bates Railscast Number 170. He totally nails it – just follow along and adjust for the… Continue reading HAML and Apache EncodingsSeptember 23rd, 2009 / Author: adminI’m playing around a bit with the HAML gem. It broke my Apache / Passenger server immediately. The original error message looked something like: /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ 2009-05-01 10:05:18 -1000 WordPress Under RailsSeptember 11th, 2009 / Author: adminThere have been occasional discussions about integrating a Wordpress CMS into a Rails application. One approach is to simply do a Wordpress install under RAILS_ROOT/public/blog. That’s pretty straightforward: cd RAILS_ROOT/public A Word About WordPressSeptember 11th, 2009 / Author: adminLast week there was a fair amount of buzz about Wordpress security issues. Here’s an Information Week article and also a short blurb from IT World in case you’re not a Wordpress user… Continue reading Changing IDEsSeptember 5th, 2009 / Author: adminI have been bouncing between the RadRails and NetBeans IDEs for quite some time now. I like them both a lot, but I have not been able to make RadRails Test::Unit work 100%… Continue reading |