Artur Krzywanski » ruby

Ruby on Rails and Ruby Gems on Debian Lenny using backports

Artur — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:21:34 +0000

There’s a thing about Debian… it’s super stable, but the devs always want newer software, so if they need Ruby you have a choice of compiling it from source as I previously described here or better using the Debian Backports. …

Capistrano and rake process in the background

Artur — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:23:24 +0000

This is useful for Capistrano deployments when you need to start rake process which doesn’t run as daemon. When you start daemons you will usually do this: task :start_app, :roles => :app_servers do run "export RAILS_ENV=production && cd #{deploy_to}/current/ &&/usr/local/bin/rake …

Ruby On Rails in Debain/Ubuntu and missing zlib

Artur — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:01:44 +0000

There is a known problem with ruby on Debian or Ubuntu with gem command not working properly. Here is how to fix it. So here is how to install RoR from source: user@computer:$ cd /usr/local/srcwget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p299.tar.gztar -zxf ruby-1.8.7-p299.tar.gzcd ruby-1.8.7-p299./configuremakemake installcd …