Ah, the bracket tax. XML-Situps, whatever you want to call them, if you write any code (especially if you use java) it should be your sworn enemy. The other day I had to create about 40 XML files for some Java Webstart configs. Instead of doing them by hand, I decided to check out the [...]
I have to kill mongrel alot because it’s a flea-bitten mutt. My usual method was to do a ps -aux | grep mongrel , find the pid and kill it! Annoying and stupid! Now I just use the nice pkill tool in ubuntu like so. pkill mongrel boom! All bad doggies killed! This probably works [...]
I was writing a ruby script today that ran a linux command for every line in a file. The problem was the backtick operator in ruby only captures stdout, here's a little trick to get stderr as well. (*nix only) out = `ourlinuxcmd 2>&1` the 2>&1 bit tells the shell to redirect stderr to stdout [...]
I've started using mongrel for running rails apps with apache2 and mod_proxy , it works like a charm and allows you to run multiple rails apps and mongrel instances on one server. Your proxy setup looks like this in your httpd.conf or vhost.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName myapp.com ServerAlias www.myapp.com [...]
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