I had heard of mod_rails awhile back but never had the time to take a closer look at it.  While setting up a new rails app, I was getting frustrated with all of the configuration I needed to do to get the mongrel clusters and proxy balancers setup.  So I decided to give passenger a [...]

I decided I wanted to dedicate some time this weekend working on some side projects. Of course before I start, I needed to get the latest and greatest updates so I ran gem update and got the following error

theo@theo~/dev $ sudo gem update
Updating installed gems
…
Updating rubygems-update
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.1
ERROR: While executing gem … (NameError)
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So, Pat got a new MacBook Pro.  Little does she know, I’ve start to install programs that I would use if I just so happened to be on her computer.  The laptop already had Leopard installed and all of its goodies but a bit of upgrading was called for. So, of course I had [...]