First Post
April 2, 2007 · by Kevin Runde
I am Kevin Runde and this is my first post. I joined QWANtify last year and am loving it here. I was blogging for a little bit on LiveJournal about my experiences using Ruby on Rails. This blog is going to continue those adventures.
So here is what I have been upto with Rails and Ruby lately. I have started working on some apps with friends and ran into common issues. I needed a Subversion repository, Test Server, Continuous Integration, etc. I was looking at getting a Virtual Server at some places like Rails Machine, but I had some computers sitting around at home and couldn’t justify spending the money for a Virtual Server. So I have setup a machine at home!
I took an old 1 GHz AMD with 512 MB and put Linux on it. I first tried Fedora Core 6. That didn’t go well. First I had to download 5 disk images and burn them, after I already did the DVD image and realized the old computer didn’t have a DVD drive. Then it wouldn’t install. The best I can tell is that my NVidia card caused issues. So one weekend shot. Next I tried Gentoo. That installed, but wouldn’t update correctly. Another weekend shot. Then I installed Ubuntu. It worked and had lots of documentation about how to make my NVidia card work too.
So now I have Ubuntu and started getting all of the services on it I needed. I first got Subversion installed and had that working via SSH. I didn’t like the SVN+SSH solution with Windows. It sucked so I installed Apache and signed my own certificate so now I have Subversion working over https and NOT http. AWESOME!!!
This past weekend I decided it was time to install Rails. There I hit a weird issue. Ruby Gems in not an installable package!! Why? Because the Debian developers have issues with a ruby package manger when they have their own package manager. I am getting really sick of Linux developers deciding to not support something because they don’t like it. This is one of the biggest issues with Linux. Alright I’ll get off my SOAP BOX for now. So I got Ruby Installed. Built Gems and installed in manually. Then I used Ruby Gem to install the rest of rails as it should be done. Last night I installed MySQL and started setting it up. I love how by default the security is very tight. PLUS you get good error codes you can look up to figure out how to adjust the security.
After I have MySQL configure correctly. I will get some of my apps running. Then I plan to start using Mongrel Clusters and Deploy Capistrano.
I’ll let you know how that goes!
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