Category Archives: rails

Snow Leopard + MySQL + Ruby + 64-bit = #fail

Posted on July 9, 2010 by andy

Running into the following error after your Snow Leopard upgrade? uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes Then the following build line for the mysql gem might fix it for you: ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386 -arch x86_64″ \ gem install –no-rdoc –no-ri mysql ]] \ — … Continue reading →

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Installing new Ruby postgresql adapter on Leopard

Posted on June 5, 2009 by andy

I need to fix a project which uses PostgreSQL. On a fresh Leopard install with postgresql 8.3 installed from ports I ran into this problem: $ sudo gem install pg Building native extensions.  This could take a while… ERROR:  Error … Continue reading →

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Passenger with RACK apps

Posted on January 18, 2009 by andy

I started converting various apps running on mongrel clusters over to Apache + Passenger. One component of our production system is implemented as as mongrel plugin so it kind of sucks tot keep mongrel around just for this part. The … Continue reading →

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Passenger makes Apache relevant again

Posted on October 11, 2008 by andy

After stearing clear of Apache2 for the last year for all production servers I’m now ready to give it another try, thanks to Phusion’s Passenger. I’ve grown really tired of setting up god scripts for all environments and fighting mongrel’s … Continue reading →

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Rails’ end_of_month fixed

Posted on June 1, 2008 by andy

In Rails 2.0.x the end_of_month now properly gives you the end of month e.g. Mon Jun 30 23:59:59 +0200 2008, instead of Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 +0200 2008, which was the case in Rails 1.2.x (see this previous post). Good … Continue reading →

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Massive memory leak in ruby-gettext 1.90.0

Posted on May 8, 2008 by andy

Just found out there’s a massive memory leak in ruby gettext 1.90.0, one of our applications started eating GBs of RAM after a couple of days in use. So If you’re using gettext for translating your Rails app take note! … Continue reading →

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Side project: De TV Flat (KRO)

Posted on April 30, 2008 by andy

My first Rails 2.0.x project has been running in production for a couple of months now. It’s the website for KRO’s “De TV Flat”, a children/teens program airing every Saturday on dutch national television around 9am (channel Nederland 3) untill … Continue reading →

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Torturing Ruby (and laughing at your own code)

Posted on August 21, 2007 by andy

While cleaning up some code I ran across some obscure code of mine from my Ruby youth. I remembered reading about an ultra cool Ruby tool the other day so I decided to give my code a good flogging. The … Continue reading →

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Switch from Typo to Mephisto

Posted on April 16, 2007 by andy

After the final botched Typo upgrade I gave up on it and am now serving this blog from Mephisto (0.7.3). The migration went fine. Luckily I still had a copy from the old Typo database structure since the Typo SVN … Continue reading →

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Rewriting a (large) PHP application in Rails, part 2

Posted on December 19, 2006 by andy

In my previous post on this topic I described the method we used to convert a legacy MySQL PHP database to a Rails conformant PostgreSQL hosted version. In this article I will tell a bit about how we converted the … Continue reading →

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