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Looks like another back burner project is heating up again. The rest of the week may be pretty busy.
- Load Balancing & QOS with HAProxy - More fancy Rails serving. If I ever hire again, I’m going to be looking for a sysadmin/ops guy (or gal!) first.
- FiveRuns Manage 2.0 - Now in Public Beta - Another solution for monitoring the entire Rails stack.
- Ubuntu 8.04 Rails Server Using Passenger, Part 2 - More setup fu.
This multi upload UI is slowly coming together. Though if it were me, I’d talk the client out of wanting to see progress meters in a Rails app.
- Mongrel Upload Progess Plugin - One of the better-looking solution for upload progress callbacks. The problem is that it locks you into Mongrel.
- Ubuntu 8.04 Rails Server Using Passenger - A setup guide, with part 2 to come.
- In-place file upload with Ruby on Rails - The GMail technique for asynchronous uploads.
Time to repost another few links for my own reference and yours.
- I’m on Rails: Coding Statistics. - I ended up swiping pieces of this to do outbound link tracking in an application I’m working on.
- rails plugin list - More plugins than you can shake a stick at, along with where to grab them from. You have to guess their use from their names, though.
- Installing Xen on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - the complete newbie’s guide - I hope not to have to tackle this any time soon, but if I do, this looks like a good unified guide.
Days like today - marked by tedious conference calls and fighting with broken Windows software - make me dream about being in a different business.
- Enhanced Rails Migrations v1.1.0 - A tweak to Rails migrations to make them work better in multi-developer teams.
- Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer, & Mongrel on Ubuntu 6.06 - If I had remembered this article yesterday, I could have avoided having to reinstall Apache today. Just remember to check the Apache site and pick your closest mirror for the download.
- Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial - Yummy good info on page caching from the Rails Envy guys. I need to soak in this for a while.
Well, I’m working on deploying another little Rails app, but I’ve hit an unexpected snag. I fired up a fresh Ubuntu server for this one, brought in all the latest bits, and now Capistrano is not playing nicely with it. I’m hitting the exact symptoms described in this message but as no one has posted an answer knowing that the symptoms are not unique doesn’t do me a whole boatload of good.
I could perhaps shove it on to the same server I’m using for other things, but there’s a limit to how many mongrel instances I want to spin up on a single server when I have tons of unused computing capacity sitting around. Two differences between the servers may be salient - the working server is Ubuntu server and Capistrano , while the one that is being crabby is Ubuntu desktop and Capistrano 1.4.1. I suspect it’s the Capistrano version that’s making the difference 1.4.0, but what do I know? Not much.
I’d be grateful for any suggestions.
Looking Glass on Ubuntu just goes to show that Vista and Mac don’t have a monopoly on stupid wastes of GPU cycles. (via dzone)
A Linux start-up on the path to profits is a News.com story based on an interview with Canonical/Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. It’s sort of comforting on one level to know that there’s a serious business plan behind the Linux variant that I’m using to write this, but on another level, I’m not sure it matters -it’s not like the software is going to explode or my non-existent license will expire if Canonical goes under.
So, after on and off effort for four days, I’ve managed to get this site up and running. Installing ozimodo and playing with Rails on a Ubuntu client was easy, and I’m impressed with my initial spelunking in Rails.
Deploying the solution to a Ubuntu server was a bitch. I persevered, and got through all the problems, but I definitely would have given up if this was my first computing experience. All the information I needed was somewhere, but some of it was in one place, some in another, bits and pieces were pulled from my own experience, and so on. It seems to me that there are some opportunities here to make this part of the deal easier.
Of course, opportunities don’t necessarily equate to market opportunities.
This Google Groups post saved me. It certainly wasn’t obvious to me what the problem was.
I’ve tried a batch of Linux distros in the past. This time around I’m using Ubuntu; it seems to be well-designed to just work for most things. I’m also poking at Ruby on Rails. The two do not seem to be a perfect match in that the Ubuntu folks are not fond of the Ruby gems installer, and the Ruby packages in the Ubuntu universe aren’t always the latest. Install Ruby Rails on Ubuntu Edgy Eft was a big help in getting a working client side combination going.
Installing Rails, Apache 2.2, and Mongrel on Ubuntu Dapper 64-bit ended up being the best guide I found to getting most of the bits I needed on the server for this stuff.
