Rails on flow

Upgrading postgres on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I too have gone down the rabbit hole of having to upgrade compiled-from-source apps to 64bit architecture after moving to Snow Leopard. The hardest by far was postgres. The sad thing is that 32bit version works just fine, but the adapter gems for rails don’t, hence the need for the recompile.

rails capistrano deploy script OS X to Ubuntu

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, so in a previous post I described the rabit-hole which is switching to rails. Below’s my capistrano deploy script which solves a number of problems:

The production server needs a mongrel cluster configuration file added.
Deployment requires restarting the mongrel cluster.
On Ubuntu the database.yaml spec has to be modified to because you need to specify a mysql socket path differently from OS X.

So here’s what I added to make it work:

down the rails rabbit hole

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The last month has been quite a trip down the rabbit hole into the new reality of ruby on rails! The promise of a powerful and well designed web application framework was just too much for me to resist, so I decided to leave my own yawaf framework behind (though it has certainly served me well).