Some notes from the latest discussion with Moro-san about his lighty and rails upgrade troubles:Lighttpd after version 1.4.9 requires the full path in the "bin-path" part of the lighttpd.conf file. Also from version 1.4.10 you will have CW…

Rubricks is a new Ruby on Rails based CMS. The demo looks pretty good. For bad luck it's crashing my Firefox browser everytime I tryed it :( Working with Safari. The english site is still not fully functional (the registration at least wor…

The biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived. Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make everyday life a little smoother, a little rounder, and a li…

Everything started with a post, benchmarking cherrypy agains other similar web servers. Nothing special, we can see how good Mongrel is ;) What catched my attention was the lines about LuaWeb2: [Mongrel] ... Requests per second: 386.31 [#/…

Must read articles for everybody, doing RoR systems administration: The adventures of scaling, Stage 1 Questions and answers for Stage 1 The adventures of scaling, Stage 2 The adventures of scaling, Stage 3 Expect the last part on 02-Apr-2…

The new player on the Web 2.0 scene? Ajax improved the UI, Comet seems more server-side oriented. Via a persistend HTTP connections it making the communication with the server "push-based" - the server, asynchroniously pushing data to the …

Hahahaha, one of the coolest RoR sites - Coastr : an experiment in social networking for beer snobs (meant as a compliment, of course!). The basic idea is for you to create a list of your favorite beers, and to connect you with other peopl…

I know id:iR3 -san like Web 2.0 stuff. Small present for him ;) : Everything Web 2.0 . Specially the Video 2.0 section is interesting: for example VideoEgg - videoblog for dummies - just a small browser plug-in and you are ready to go.

We are using Xen 3.0.1 on Debian Sarge from several months. Working great. Finally on HowtoForge they upgraded their manual too - The Perfect Xen 3.0 Setup For Debian. Good. Also something else bring my attention: Setting Up A Highly Avail…

I translated Gorou-san’s page for following Edge Rails (original is in japanese) – link to the edgerails page in english . For me the described method seems like a pretty smart way to stay organized, even on the cutting edge.

Sweet and very rubyish looking typo blog by Florian Frank.

FastCGI is difficult to install/manage. Really it is :( Problem: DHH loves FastCGI. There is so many FastCGI-centric stuff in Rails: script/process/* the default lighttpd.conf, generated by script/server Solution: Zed Shaw First Zed gave a…

Interesting lightweight combination will be: Camping framework for the MVC moo.fx for the Ajax effects Somebody already done it?

To test the new wiki, i put there my notes from the 9th Ruby meeting in Osaka previous week. There are more detailed notes in japanese in ha-tan-san's diary.Interesting: now I can easy move pages between wiki, when they are work in progres…

It's not about famous "The Lord of the Rings" movie. It's about increasing the performance via using the unified tools. What I'm talking about: My everyday usage programming language of choice is Ruby My web applications are in Ruby: Ruby …

For the Second Rails meeting in Osaka I needed to prepare some slides for my presentation. Usually there is no projector there, but we have network, so I thought it will be good everybody to access slides with their own browser. Before I u…

...Ajax Scaffold Generator (for Ruby on Rails) creates a scaffold page like the typical rails one, except adding, editing and deleting are all done inline. The generated scaffold is valid XHTML strict and fully styled right out of the box.…

Searching inside the blog added. Categories and tags added. The most difficult to figure was, than the title must be *[Category]... without any space between '*' and '['. Tags cloud is based on id:naoya_t 's ruby code. Thanks. Also I joine…

Seems Apple already have Intel based Mac-mini: 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo processor 512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM) 80GB Serial ATA hard drive Double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0 Mmmmmmmm…