http://shanesveller.com Somewhere between happy and total f**king wreck Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:28:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gist [gist id=27571] Install this with Sake and run sake textmate:bundles:update to update any local bundles you have checked out through svn/git. http://shanesveller.com/2008/11/21/snippet-update-your-local-gitsubversion-based-textmate-bundles-with-sake/ For those of you who haven't heard, Google has released a beta of their new open source browser, Chrome. Currently it is only available on the Windows platform, but Linux and OSX are incoming. I'm using 0.2, and I've spent about a week with it. Some quick feedback follows after ... http://shanesveller.com/2008/09/12/google-chrome-02/ Gilded is my shot at an MMO guild portal target directly at World of Warcraft. It currently supports member and character profiles and integration with the Armory with much more to come. Here we have the Welcome screen, with an introductory message, list of features, and two feeds of recent content. ... http://shanesveller.com/2008/08/12/a-brief-visual-tour-of-gilded-v005/ Source: Redmine.org For those of you who are running Redmine on Phusion Passenger, if you have certain versions of the RedCloth gem installed, you are in for some trouble. I was getting something along the lines of: Error message: superclass must be a Class (Module given) Exception class: ... http://shanesveller.com/2008/08/11/redmine-and-passenger-bugfix/ Updated my web server with Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20080810 and Phusion Passenger 2.0.3 successfully. Both releases feature bugfixes for security issues and the like. My web server currently powers this blog, a Redmine instance for my own projects, and some "production" servers for a few Rails apps I'm writing right ... http://shanesveller.com/2008/08/11/passenger-and-rubyent-updates/ Source: Tibs' Blog I had been having a lot of trouble using libxml-ruby on Ubuntu Hardy for a hobby project of mine. Any task including libxml calls via require 'xml/libxml' fails with the message: no such file to load -- libxml_so.To solve this:   sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.7.0 sudo ruby ext/libxml/extconf.rb sudo make; sudo ... http://shanesveller.com/2008/07/14/building-libxml-ruby-gem-on-ubuntu-hardy/ Source: John Wulff and comments sudo port install id3lib sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install id3lib-ruby -- --build-flags --with-opt-dir=/opt/local http://shanesveller.com/2008/07/08/installing-id3lib-ruby-gem-on-osx-leopard-with-id3lib-from-macports/ I took a chance with my time this weekend to try out Vista Ultimate x64, after acquiring a pair of 2GB sticks of DDR2-800 for my gaming desktop. I have to say, I haven't had the chance to throw much at it and I wound up on a retro kick ... http://shanesveller.com/2008/07/07/64-bit-windows/ This morning, as a result of a hardware failure on my home server, I decided to move my Redmine devtracker to my Linode host.I used: Ubuntu Server 8.04 AMD64 Apache2-prefork 2.2.8 Passenger 2.0.1 Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20080624 Redmine 0.7 stable (SVN r1547) My apache vhost is as follows: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName dev.shanesveller.com DocumentRoot /var/rails/redmine-0.7/public <Directory "/var/rails/redmine-0.7/public"> ... http://shanesveller.com/2008/06/25/another-successful-passenger-deployment/ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-include=/opt/local/include/mysql5 --with-mysql-lib=/opt/local/lib/mysql5 --with-mysql-config=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql_config This worked for me with mysql installed via macports by the command: sudo port install mysql5 +server From Code Intensity. http://shanesveller.com/2008/06/13/mysql-ruby-gem-with-macports-mysql/