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Passenger Woes - nil.controller_name in Sweepers module

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
So I deploy an existing app using Passenger for the first time and hit this: Embedded pastie: The only Google results had to do with components and how...

Arts plugin and Rails 2.2.2

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
It seems the arts plugin has some problems with Rails 2.2.2. Seems to be a simple enough fix. I simply added the following to the bottom of my arts.rb file...

HAProxy 1.3 on CentOS

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
I used the examples/haproxy.spec to build a RPM of HAProxy 1.2. It was painless. 1.3 was a bit more annoying but I got it working and thought I should share...

Pastie: Lesson 1 - Question your first assumption

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
So before I dug in to really work on Pastie I did a quick bump from 2.0 to 2.1. And I was instantly horrified at memory usage. "Memory out of bounds" e-mails...

Re-factoring Pastie: Lessons Learned

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
It's been almost 2.5 years since Pastie #1. For the most part Pastie has changed little. I can only think of a few new features that have appeared since...

Pastie adds embedding JS support

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
So you like pasting your code to Pastie, but you've always wished it was easier to include that same code in your blog or webpages? Wish no longer. Below...

Leopard Ruby and Oniguruma gem

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
Ok I spent WAY too much time getting this to work so I'm just going to tell you what finally worked for me. * Edit your ports down to 5.8 and port install...

Rail's Dev Mode Performance Plugin

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
NOTICE: Don't even try this on 2.0... It's tested against 2.1.2 only but I plan to have it working on 2.2 soon. Once upon a time there was dev_mode_performance_fixes...

Moon, attempt #1

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
So I bought a Opteka 650-1300mm lens for play enough though I heard they are crap. Here is one of my first moon shots: You can click on the image to see...

Looking for a RubyConf 2008 ticket... anyone?

~1 year ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
If anyone has an extra RubyConf 2008 ticket for sale, I'm interested... drop a comment here I'll get back with you right away. I meant to get one early...