Yet Another Geek In The World
Today, I started out on the very grueling task of running a RoR app on top of Lighttpd. The added complexity I introduced was that the sqlite db I’m using is hosted over Dropbox. This turned out to be a not-so-good idea and I resorted to rsync-ing the dbs in Dropbox to another location accessible by the web server.
I’ll update this post at a later date but for now, this guide would immensely help you out. I’ll provide a step-by-step guide later on.
So, I’m trying to run Tracks and I’m at running the server stage now. Running script/server -e production only gives me this:
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After installing rails on a new computer and running across the same problem I had before (boy, am I glad I blog my fixes!), I tried running rails server which gave me:
no such file to load openssl
when I visit localhost:3000
I compiled ruby from source and am on Ubuntu, so if you’re in the same boat, here’s how to fix it:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
cd /path/to/ruby/source/ext/openssl/
ruby ./extconf.rb
make
sudo make install
After that, the page should load fine.
I’ve had the (dis)pleasure of having to actually code on a Mac. The shortcut keys are too much of an interruption to code comfortably. OTOH, I need the Mac to compile via XCode.
Necessity is the mother of innovation, they say, so I searched around and stumbled upon SSHFS.
Installation was straightforward. On my Ubuntu 10.10:
sudo apt-get install sshfs
Adding myself to the fuse group:
sudo adduser me fuse
And then mount via CLI as follows:
sshfs me@remoteip:/Users/developer/Desktop ~/local/mountpoint
It’s now looks like any other directory you have in your system, albeit with a bit of minor lag. Then I code using my two monitors, and with all the Linux goodness I want. I’ve set up a blank key pair on my local and the remote machine so it doesn’t ask me for passwords anymore.
Laziness is truly such a virtue.
If you encounter other problems, this was the article I followed the first time around.
