How To – Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 Server

Install required packages sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev The required packages for installing Ruby Enterprise, and Git thrown in for good measure. Install Ruby Enterprise Download ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02.tar.gz & Install wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71096/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02.tar.gz tar xzvf ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02.tar.gz sudo ./ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02/installer May take a long time to get past the “Generating RI…” bit Also, ignore the  “The following […]

Posted on September 13, 2010 at 5:55 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · One Comment
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glTail – Visual Log Analyzer

glTail is another visual log viewer.  It can in real time (like logstalgia) show you traffic to your site.  glTail does a lot more analytical work before showing you the motion. glTail will show you and track things like Requests per minute from ips HTTP response codes per minute (how many 404’s) How many hits […]

Posted on September 24, 2009 at 12:45 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Routes Error using Phusion Passenger, Apache, Rails 2.2.2 and RailsBaseURI

Rails can’t find the page, but it should be the root directory. It works when I script/server, it just won’t load with Passenger properly. Solutions in google groups Add config.action_controller.relative_url_root = “/appName” to your environment.rb file.

Posted on June 3, 2009 at 1:03 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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