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In advance of running a Rails application on a Windows machine, I’ve been trying to get Rails running on my local WinXP machine to ensure a smooth transtion. I followed the instructions on the rails wiki, and while I could ge the app running, it was very slow - requests were taking between 4 [...]

can be a bad combination. I had what I’m sure was valid XML, but CF, just couldn’t parse it. I kept getting the error, “Document root element is missing.” Turns out there may be some funky characters in your XML document, see this post for more details. It worked for me.

And has been temporarily closed.
After re-writing an existing asp.net app and migrating from 1.1 to 2.0 I was getting the connection pooling error:

System.Web.HttpUnhandledException: Exception of type ‘System.Web.HttpUnhandledException’ was thrown. —> System.InvalidOperationException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled [...]

This blog uses a great code syntax highlighter plug-in: iG:Syntax Hiliter. The plugin is based on the GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter. Getting into Ruby/Rails, I was looking for a Ruby syntax highlighter for it and was psyched to have found a blog post somehwere (can’t find it now), that indicated [...]