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Archive for the ‘Ruby on Rails’ Category

Introducing Speedy – Painless rapid Rails deployment

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Speedy

If you’re a Rails developer I hope you too hate to run ./script/server command all the time to start the application server during the development phase. Fortunately Phusion came up with a revolutionized solution to host the Rails application on Apache server using Passenger (aka mod_rails).

To deploy a web application on Apache using Passenger you should perform following initial server configurations.

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How to uninstall / remove Ruby Gems (on Ubuntu)?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Uninstall Ruby Gems

First we need to find out the exact location that the Ruby installs it’s libraries. In the terminal program, You can type the following command to find out the exact location.

ruby -e 'puts $:'

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Screencast: How to Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Screencast: How to Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu?

This screencast will teach you to set up the Ruby on Rails development environment on Ubuntu.

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