Clogging up the Web

Breezy Badger’s standard Ruby package is version 1.8.2, which means you will probably want to download and install from source, particularly if you want to use Rails. I downloaded version 1.8.4 and did the usual ./configure; make; make install. That worked. Then I tried installing RubyGems. I ran into a problem with zlib.
To get around […]

I got fastCGI working. I didn’t do anything differently than before, but I did notice that there were some ruby processes hanging around even after killing them with ‘kill -9′. They kept re-spawning. The dispatch.fcgi and my test.fcgi scripts were out of control. When I stopped and started Apache, it cured the problem and fastCGI […]

I decided that while using mod_proxy with WEBrick is fine for development, it would not realistically do for a production environment. With that in mind, I decided to setup fastcgi. Despite my best efforts, I could not get it to work. I could get FastCGI working with Apache, just not with Rails. I could get […]

I have been meaning to get Rails setup on my home “server” for a while now. I finally got it running yesterday and I have to say that my initial impressions are very positive. Talk about hitting the ground running.
I got things going very quickly with a Ruby / Rails frontend and MySQL 5 backend. […]