A while ago I read one of Peter Harkins’s posts about open classes in Ruby, and how insanely awesome and useful they are. As you can probably tell, I wholeheartedly agree. Open classes are just one of those things that make me choose Ruby over pretty much anything else, whenever I get the chance to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
define_method is an odd creature. Paul Gross’s post about its unusual behaviour inspired me to do some research. I even went and browsed through Ruby’s source to attempt to understand it, but that turned out to be unnecessary: I reimplemented it in pure1 Ruby. In this post, I’m going to try and explain why [...]