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Installing Phusion Passenger on Ubuntu 8.04

January 4, 2009 – 12:38 am

There seems to be a bug in passenger-2.0.6 that makes the Apache module installation fail. I was just installing Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20081215 and Phusion Passenger (AKA mod_rack or mod_rails), and it bailed out on me saying:
root@evidence:~# /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20081215/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module
[...]
Compiling and installing Apache 2 module…
cd /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20081215/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.6
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20081215/bin/ruby -S rake clean apache2
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20081215/bin/ruby: No such file or directory — rake [...]

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Moving out!

January 3, 2009 – 3:45 am

Until today, all my stuff was on a shared host. Didn’t matter much for this blog, but trying to run Rails applications on prehistoric technology like FastCGI got tiresome quickly. In addition, the server I was hosted on was frequently having issues since a few weeks (at one point, I witnessed it showcasing a load [...]

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