I had fun building my family tree with Geni. I built one earlier with Ancestry.com but soon found out I can’t work with the limitations for their free service. Geni is 100% free- I think.
August, 2007
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Aug 07
Too old to program?
Are you too old to program? I got in the game late after looking for my “calling”.
14
Aug 07
Vlad the Deployer hits Capistrano
Vlad the Deployer is an alternative to Capistrano when deploying apps to servers. Vlad is brought to us by Ruby Hit Squad. Cool Eh?
14
Aug 07
Weird things happening here
Weird things like my frontpage here is a month behind and template not recognizing if user is logged in. I suspect webhost cache but I don’t have time to fix them now.
13
Aug 07
My PC hate Eclipse and Netbeans
My 512MB RAM armed PC has no match with Eclipse and Netbeans IDE. I’ll have to be contented with Kate or VIM at the moment until I get to save for a new unit.
10
Aug 07
Blueprint CSS Framework
Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to quirky page layouts with Blueprint
7
Aug 07
Using YUI Library
Currently using jQuery but is considering YAHOO! User Interface Library for future JavaScript needs. It’s awesome and Yahoo! is hosting too. (if you’re not concerned about security that much).
2
Aug 07
Upgrading Ruby in Ubuntu Without Using Apt
For some reason I need to upgrade the installed Ruby versions in my development PC and in slicehost VPS. Both uses Ubuntu: dev has ubuntu edgy, VPS has ubuntu dapper. Ruby is already in version 1.8.6 while the one in Ubuntu repository through apt-get is stuck at 1.8.4. So I upgraded by compiling Ruby source files.
Here's what I did:
CODE:
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sudo apt-get install build-essential
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sudo apt-get install libreadline5 libreadline5-dev
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wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
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tar -xzf ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
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cd ruby-1.8.6
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./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread --with-readline-dir=/usr/local
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make
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sudo make install
After compiling, Ruby will be installed in /usr/local directories. Run 'ruby -v' and check if it say 'ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]'.
CODE:
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wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/20989/rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
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tar -xzf rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
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cd rubygems-0.9.4
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sudo ruby setup.rb
You might need to reinstall your gems. I'm using Rails so when I tried running 'script/console', I get something like:
CODE:
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/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require':
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no such file to load -- readline (LoadError)
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from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10
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from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `load_modules'
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from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `load_modules'
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from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup'
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from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start'
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from /usr/local/bin/irb:13
Weird because when I logged out and in again, the problem went away.