Yes, we're moving from SVN to Git too

Posted by Michael Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:45:00 GMT

This is more information on why you’d ever need, but I like to hear Linus talk.

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Ssh tunnel to remote MySQL

Posted by Michael Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:52:00 GMT

You’ve got port 3306 (MySQL) firewalled off and you want to use a MySQL GUI every once in a while (or maybe a bunch).

This is a snap with ssh.

On your local Linux/BSD/Mac/Unix machine (works in cygwin too) edit your .ssh/config file and add:

Host somemysqlserver
 Hostname server.mydomain.com #your mySQL server FQDN or IP
 User bob #replace with your valid ssh server username
 LocalForward *:13306 localhost:3306
Now do: 
ssh -f -N somemysqlserver

You can now connect to your localhost port 13306 and it will forward to your MySQL server’s port 3306.

Plus, it’s free and probably already installed on your systems.

Need help? support@imapenguin.com

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Capistrano 2.0 and Mongrel Recipies

Posted by Michael Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:15:00 GMT

Capistrano 2.0 doesn’t work with those mongrel recipes we all have nowadays. We scratched our head at some hacks before finding a good solution via the blog world.

Thanks to Megablaix, Inc for posting this code. Works great for us, just tack it onto the end of your deploy.rb and go:

namespace :deploy do
  namespace :mongrel do
    [ :stop, :start, :restart ].each do |t|
      desc "#{t.to_s.capitalize} the mongrel appserver" 
      task t, :roles => :app do
        #invoke_command checks the use_sudo 
        #variable to determine how to run 
        # the mongrel_rails command
        invoke_command "mongrel_rails cluster::#{t.to_s} -C #{mongrel_conf}", :via => run_method
      end
    end
  end

  desc "Custom restart task for mongrel cluster" 
  task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => 
       { :no_release => true } do
    deploy.mongrel.restart
  end

  desc "Custom start task for mongrel cluster" 
  task :start, :roles => :app do
    deploy.mongrel.start
  end

  desc "Custom stop task for mongrel cluster" 
  task :stop, :roles => :app do
    deploy.mongrel.stop
  end
end

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Android SDK Available now

Posted by Michael Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:22:00 GMT

Get it here, while it’s hot off the presses. I know, we’re such nerds…

Here’s an emulator screenshot.

andriod screenshot

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Finally, hope of an open phone platform

Posted by Michael Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:28:00 GMT

We penguins have been discussing publicly since we first started developing on mobile back in 2001 that mobile phone apps will continue to largely suck until some major players come up with a reasonably open platform. That was finally announced today:

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Ruby makes me smile

Posted by Michael Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:21:25 GMT

It’s not often that computer work makes me smile. I needed to download 6 files today. This is what made me smile:

[1,2,3,4,5,6].each do |number|
    system("wget http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/\
        pub/centos/5.0/isos/i386/\
        CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-#{number}of6.iso")
end

Ahh. Ruby, where the simple things are simple.

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Ruby and Erlang process bridge

Posted by Michael Thu, 10 May 2007 16:29:00 GMT

Erlang is a really great language for problem areas where a distributed system is involved, but it lacks the huge number of libraries that Ruby has. Wanna have your cake and eat it too? Yep, so do we. Enter Erlectricity, a Ruby to Erlang bridge.

It’s already on rubyforge, install it with: 
sudo gem install erlectricity

We’re actively prototyping a software solution that would be better in Erlang as it needs to be massively concurrent (think deep packet inspection at 750Mbits). Two libraries we need for aggregation exist in Ruby but not Erlang. Now we can bridge the two and let Erlang do it’s thing and Ruby do what it does best, just not so fast.

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Rails mongrel cluster with apache 2.2 and mysql on Ubuntu Edgy (6.10)

Posted by Michael Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:22:00 GMT

We’ve been doing a bunch of server setups for folks in VPS’s. I figure we’d save you the cost of hiring us by posting a quick rundown on an Ubuntu Edgy Rails setup:

sudo bash
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get remove apache2
apt-get install libssl-dev
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
dpkg --purge apache apache2
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libreadline5-dev
cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://apache.mirror99.com/httpd/httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz

tar -xzvf httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.2.4
./configure --enable-proxy --enable-proxy-balancer\
--enable-proxy-http --enable-rewrite --enable-cache\
--enable-headers --enable-ssl --enable-so
make && make install
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

apt-get install mysql-server
/etc/init.d/mysql start

cd /usr/local/src/

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17189/rubygems-0.9.2.zip
apt-get install unzip
unzip rubygems-0.9.2.zip
tar -xzvf ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.6
./configure && make && make install

cd ../rubygems-0.9.2

ruby setup.rb

gem update
gem install rails --include-dependencies

apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
gem install mysql --include-dependencies
gem install mongrel --include-dependencies
gem install mongrel_cluster --include-dependencies

Then you need some optional housecleaning and deploy your app. We’ll assume you know this part. If not, you can flame me via email and I’ll help you.

  • set a mysql password and add appropiate users and permissions
  • setup iptables
  • add apache conf for mongrel cluster
  • add app required gems as needed
  • use capistrano set up your directories
  • migrate database
  • start clusters
  • apache and mysql to startupscripts
  • add mongrel to startup scripts

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Ruby Gems: undefined method `refresh'

Posted by Michael Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:11:43 GMT

If you’re getting:

Updating installed gems...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x1380250>

you need to remove your source_cache. Look in ~/.gem and in your site directory. Mine is in:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/

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Easy Rails on a Mac

Posted by Michael Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:02:57 GMT

Dave Benjamin just updated his step by step guide to install Rails on a Mac.

Mongrel + Ruby + Rails + Mac = Yum.

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