mysql driver is no longer bundled w/ rails. you'll need to install it yourself w/ sudo gem install mysql however, on ubuntu (heron) this won't work. issue these commands first sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev if libmysqlclient-dev...

I had an old version of rvm installed and wanted to upgrade. So old in fact that the resource for upgrading no longer existed. rvm update just returned a 301, redirect. Luckily, the following worked # checks out from repo rvm update --head # will re...

After installing Ruby Enterprise Edition, REE, and Passenger on Ubuntu you may see this error message when you run script/console for the first time ./script/console production # => Loading production environment (Rails 2.3.5) Rails requires RubyGems >=...

I'm usually at the command line so I wrote a little a bash function so that i can type tweet this is really neat but kind of pointless and it will update my twitter status! some characters trip it up but in general it's useful for most of my tweets. The...

Here are all the commands for setting up your Rails application to server requests over SSL -on Ubuntu, of course. There are great resources and tutorials at these websites. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/se...