Tag Archives: ruby

I don’t use Foreign Key Constraints with Rails

A couple of months back we had Nigel talking at WellRailed about a Foreign Key Constraint plugin he uses with Rails and then just this week the topic was brought up again for me with a client.  I’ve found it’s something that pops up every now and again.  Given this is such a polarizing issue [...]

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Trouble upgrading rubygems.

A little more fiddling and I discovered that when I installed vim-full an incomplete install of ruby 1.8 was also placed on the system.  Aptitude thought ruby was installed, but it wasn’t.  Hence two posts ago me saying that Ubuntu was weird and I had to reinstall ruby.
A second problem with what I installed was [...]

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Apache, It Works!

I was looking through the slicehost article section the other night and bumped into an awesome article on initial configuration steps for ubuntu.  If you don’t know what your doing, you should go take a look at that.
So, anyway.  I’ve got a server up and going doing absolutely nothing, and I’m assuming you do too [...]

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