Ruby/Rails —
When upgrading to 2.0.1 there are two ways to go. You can update your rails version server-wide via gems or by individual application. If you have access to the whole server, going the gem route is probably easiest. And you can have different rails gems installed without causing problems. You need to [...]
iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2
(tags: rails iphone mobile programming)
Having dealt with this lost connection issue more than a few times I thought I should write down the solution.
From the Mongrel FAQs:
Q: Mongrel stops working if it’s left alone for a long time.
If you find that Mongrel stops working after a long idle time
and you’re using MySQL then you’re hitting a bug in the [...]
(From William Morgan):
I do the vast majority of my hobby programming (and whatever amount of my professional programming that I can get away with) in Ruby. It is the perfect language for anyone who values elegance, beauty, flexibility, and power, while at the same time insists on a language that actually allows you to get [...]
So I was kindly issued a shiny new MacBook Pro which is truly awesome; an elegant gui built on top of Unix. I think this page pretty much covers it. I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for the past 6 months or so, and I can ‘t say I’m sad to close that chapter. [...]