Setting Up Ubuntu 9.10 for Ruby On Rails Development

February 1st, 2010 by

This 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.

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Using Byobu and Landscape to improve remote Ubuntu sessions

January 22nd, 2010 by

SSHing 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

I 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:

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Integrity CI on Passenger 2.2.2 with Ruby Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 8.04

April 26th, 2009 by

I just spent a few hours trying to get this configuration sorted out, so I thought I’d share my notes. My goal was to get Integrity running on Passenger with Ruby Enterprise Edition. However, I couldn’t get the user Integrity/Apache was running as to use the proper PATH.

Whenever Integrity would try to build my project, I’d get an error about rake not being able to be found: sh: rake: not found

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EXT4 On Ubuntu 9.04

January 16th, 2009 by

Ext4 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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