I had a bit of trouble installing the latest PostGIS 1.5 under PostgreSQL 8.4. Here are my instructions. These work on Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10.
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Setting Up Ubuntu 9.10 for Ruby On Rails Development
February 1st, 2010 by Adam BachmanThis is a document I put together at the beginning of 2010 while building yet another Ubuntu VM, digging through our internal documentation to try and find out what I needed. We’ve got the answers, and generally Ruby, Rails, and Ubuntu are pretty good about telling you how to install tools if you don’t have them yet.
But the answers are spread out and distributed randomly. Plus, I can only see “The program ‘______’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install ______” so many times before I lose interest and put off the task.
Using Byobu and Landscape to improve remote Ubuntu sessions
January 22nd, 2010 by Nick GauthierSSHing into remote servers can be an awkward experience, but it doesn’t have to be. You can turn your ssh console into a terminal-style window manager with Byobu, and get more system information via landscape.
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Mount options to improve ext4 file system performance
June 4th, 2009 by Nick GauthierI recently boosted my rails test suite running time by around 30% by adding certain mount options for my ext4 partition (works for ext3 too). I thought I’d blog about it because the first time I tried my system wouldn’t boot! So here are the step by step instructions:
Find the Unique Sessions for a Rails Application
May 4th, 2009 by Nick GauthierToday we’re going to look at how to find the number of unique sessions over a specific time frame for a rails application. We’ll be using the gem.
Using Sanitize Email to Preview HTML Emails Locally
April 30th, 2009 by Nick Gauthierhas a great post to get you started with for Ruby on Rails.
I wanted to preview my HTML emails without having to fill up my online email inboxes with tons of email (and then I’d have to make filters too). I also didn’t want to manage actually sending real email. So, I set up my machine for local delivery. Read on for instructions.
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EXT4 On Ubuntu 9.04
January 16th, 2009 by Nick GauthierExt4 got some attention recently because it was able to boot ubuntu to the login screen in about 20 seconds. However, the current daily release doesn’t support installing with Ext4. Here are the instructions for installing Ext4 onto the Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) daily-live cd.
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