VPS

Sites:

- icsalumni.org running moinmoin 1.72
- jianshi.org in migration
- community domain
- local gitorious hosting

Software
- Apache2 with php, fastcgi, modwsgi, Passenger Phusion
- Ruby latest stable (1.87), Rails 2.1, Postgres, Mysql
- Git

Whew... More to come soon guys!

Holy Grail

Brah... LOLOLOLOL good stuff

find . -type d -name '.svn' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rdf

Phusion Passenger (Modrails) on Ubuntu

Follow instructions from modrails.com

but at the end don't forget this.

cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.2
sudo find . -perm 0662 -exec chmod 664 {} \;

Some people messed up with permissions.

Ruby/Rails from Source

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/20989/rubygems-0.9.4.tgz

sudo cp -r ~/ruby-1.8.6 /usr/local/src/
sudo cp -r ~/rubygems-0.9.4 /usr/local/src/

# Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install zlib*

cd /usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.6/ext/zlib/

ruby extconf.rb --with-zlib-include=/usr/include --with-zlib-lib=/usr/lib
make
sudo make install

cd /usr/local/src/rubygems-0.9.4/
sudo ruby setup.rb config
sudo ruby setup.rb setup
sudo ruby setup.rb install

cd
sudo gem install rails --with-dependencies

Git on Rails

Rails project setup with Git.

rails project
cd project

# commands
git init
git status
git add .
git commit -a
touch tmp/.gitignore log/.gitignore vendor/.gitignore

# .gitignore
.DS_Store
log/*.log
tmp/**/*
config/database.yml
db/*.sqlite3

Jackson JSON Consumption

Jackson is a Java based JSON consumption and emission library. It is now a Codehaus project that is currently considered the fastest JSON parser for Java. I'm writing a project module at work that consumes JSON from a REST interface and populates a Java user interface in SWT. Pretty sweet stuff!

PostgreSQL Server Installation from Source (Mac OS X 10.5)

Compilation and installation is straight forward for the most part.
Get the source 8.3.3 (Current latest): http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.3.3/

1. Un-tar and Un-bzip: tar xvjf postgresql-8.3.3.tar.bz2
2. Change into uncompressed directory: cd postgresql-8.3.3
3. Configure script: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql (Default prefix options)
4. Compille: make
5. Install: make install
6. Add /usr/local/pgsql/bin to your path.

You are finished if you need this just for development.

Role to run the server.
$ sudo dscl . -create /Users/
$ sudo dscl . -create /Users/ UniqueID
$ sudo dscl . -create /Users/ PrimaryGroupID
$ sudo dscl . -create /Users/ UserShell
$ sudo dscl . -create /Users/ NFSHomeDirectory
$ sudo dscl . -create /Groups/
$ sudo dscl . -create /Groups/ PrimaryGroupID

and should be postgres. However you can customize this.

Useful Commands

pg_ctl: Controls server operation.
PGDATA: Environment variable that points to your path to store data.
initdb: Initializes database path. Uses PGDATA

More to come later. Yes you can use an automated installer. No you won't have the latest version.