Released my first RubyGem ‘BabyNames’

I often find myself always writing seed data and repeating myself.  Trying to make it as ‘real’ as possible instead of just “test1”, “test2”, “test3” etc. So here is a gem that will simplify all of that! See babynames on github for more details or find it on rubygems.org require ‘rubygems’ require ‘babynames’ person = […]

Posted on June 12, 2011 at 2:28 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Rails or Ruby Memcached Gem on Ubuntu and Linux

Get the following error when trying to install memcached ruby gem on your Ubuntu or Linux box? rlibmemcached_wrap.c: In function ‘_wrap_memcached_get_sasl_callbacks’: rlibmemcached_wrap.c:12413: error: ‘sasl_callback_t’ undeclared (first use in this function) rlibmemcached_wrap.c:12413: error: ‘result’ undeclared (first use in this function) rlibmemcached_wrap.c:12424: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token rlibmemcached_wrap.c: In function ‘Init_rlibmemcached’: rlibmemcached_wrap.c:13694: error: ‘SASL_OK’ undeclared (first […]

Posted on October 13, 2010 at 9:26 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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RubyGem nokogiri failed to install – libxslt is missing – Error installing nokogiri

Had trouble installing nokogiri until I installed dependencies. libxslt is missing #or libxml2 sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev Full Error Stacktrace:

Posted on June 29, 2010 at 2:22 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 11 Comments
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Memcached – Libmemcached already built; run ‘rake clean’ first if you need to rebuild.

Trying to install memcached ruby gem on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and I get the error Libmemcached already built; run ‘rake clean’ first if you need to rebuild. Fixed this by installing sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev gem uninstall memcached && gem install memcached Full Error Stacktrace:

Posted on June 28, 2010 at 2:10 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 5 Comments
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