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Install your own ruby on a shared host

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
Since I upgraded to Typo 4.0, and in the process rails 1.1.6 I have had a few occurrences where nanoRAILS would hang, several bloated processes would be...

Upgraded to Typo 4.0

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
Well, the upgrade to Typo 4.o didn’t go so well. No data loss though, so everything’s cool. At least most pages seem to be functional, so...

Rails Documentation Drive

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
Court3nay from ~:caboose has started a fundraising to be able to pay professional tech writers to beef up the Rails documentation. It is true that it is...

RadRails is switching to Ruby-debug

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
According to Kyle, one of the tireless developer of Rad Rails, he is working on incorporating ruby-debug. For more details about ruby-debug, see my write...

A better Rails debugger: ruby-debug

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
Just a few days ago, Kent Sibilev quietly released an amazing little plugin with far reaching consequences: ruby-debug. This is a marked improvement over...

Installing Rails on Mac OS X Tiger

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
I recently Switched back to a Mac, while other long time Mac users are switching to Linux. And I love every minute of it! Once I got the basic stuff going...

Remote Ubuntu Dapper Drake Install

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
Don’t try this at home! Well, actually, there are 2 ways you can look at it. Only attempt a remote install if it is absolutely necessary and there...

Installing Ubuntu Dapper on Parallels running on Tiger

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
After my success with installing Windows XP on my shiny new iMac, I tried to install Ubuntu Dapper (a.k.a. Dapper Drake). Why would I want to install Linux...

Installing Windows XP on MacOS with Parallels

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
I recently Switched back to MacOS and one the unforeseen (Well, almost, it just turned out much better than I anticipated!) consequence is Parallels Desktop...

textmate rails cheat sheets

almost 6 years ago by Pascal Belloncle on nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits.
I’m just discovering TextMate and I have to say I’m impressed! For those of you who don’t know me, it takes quite a bit for me to admit...