Today I got the chance to give Ruby Enterprise Edition a try. We are currently working with a really fun new environment and you do not get better opportunities to try new stuff as when you have a complete new environment thats not in production. So we gave REE a shoot. When compiling REE with got in trouble really fast and this post is about the quick fix to solve it and some of our early performance results.
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Finally my friends at newsdesk have a blog. They have started off real good with a comparison of three ruby wrappers for Google charts.
I have great expectations from the newsdesk developers blog. If you are a Ruby and Rails developer you should definitely keep and eye on them!
Posted in
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Rails,
Ruby at November 25th, 2008.
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Yesterday I upgraded merb to 1.0 and I got in some trouble that I solved pretty fast. Last night I started an empty application an got trouble again, but this time for real. I did a fresh install (removed all merb gems and datamapper gems). I generated a fresh merb app with merb-gen but i could not get it to work and all i got from merb was empty replies.
In this post I will try to describe the steps I took to track the problem down and how I solved it.
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Programming,
Ruby at November 16th, 2008.
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Today i thought that i should give the new merb release a try. When updating my merb gems i got the following message.
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| > sudo gem update
Password:
Updating installed gems
Updating merb
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError)
merb-core requires RubyGems version >= 1.3.0 |
This post is how i solved my problem updating RubyGems to 1.3.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.5
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Ruby at November 14th, 2008.
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Today one of our server got in trouble with an ACE encoded IDN domain. The problem seemed to be rails in combination with nginx’s X-Sendfile feature. The result became that when accessing the site trough the IDN domain x-senfile did not send any files….
Our quick and dirty solution (until we have found the source/or solved the problem) became redirecting all traffic from the IDN domain to the domain without strange-swedish-characters.
With nginx this is as simple as in most webservers just put the following code before you original server configuration in nginx.conf.
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| server {
server_name xn--svenskdomn-y5a.se www.xn--svenskdomn-y5a.se;
rewrite ^(.*) http://www.svenskdoman.se$1 permanent;
} |
And Bowang! All requests to www.svenskdomän.se will be redirected to www.svenskdoman.se.
Domain names have been changed to protect the innocent 
Cheers!
Posted in
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Rails at May 21st, 2008.
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Yesterday i was updating all my ruby gems. During the update a got disturbed by something so i did not pay attention what gems got updated.
This morning i found my current app not starting up.
This is how i solved it
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Posted in
Ruby at May 13th, 2008.
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