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Ruby 1.9.3-p125 OpenSSL Segfault 25 Apr 2012 | 05:54 pm
With RVM, Ruby 1.9.3-p125 suddenly segfaults on invoking OpenSSL. To fix, install the OpenSSL package to RVM and re-compile 1.9.3-p125 to point to this OpenSSL instead. rvm pkg install openssl rvm r...
Fixing Installing RVM on CentOS 2 Feb 2012 | 09:35 am
I’m setting up a Rightscale server on EC2 running CentOS 5 to use RVM, however, I ran into the issue of the ca-bundle.crt that comes with curl is too old. The RVM installer script keeps on complaining...
Rails 3 and Mongoid on CloudFoundry 31 May 2011 | 10:15 am
I got the invitation to CloudFoundry (http://cloudfoundry.com), the new PaaS (Platform as a Service) sponsored by VMWare, so I decided to deploy my side project PushPuppy to evaluate the platform. Clo...
Bundler Error with ruby1.9.2p0 on Ubuntu 2 Mar 2011 | 08:05 am
While installing a new Ubuntu server on Linode for a client using the “Stackscripts for Ruby 1.9.2, Passenger, Nginx, Rails, and MySQL”, I ran into an issue with bundler unable to install a few gems, ...
Parsing Excel files with Roo, Rails 3, Ruby 1.9.2, and home_run 12 Oct 2010 | 07:05 am
Ruby 1.9.2 is nice with speed boost and better unicode/encoding support, but it comes with a few backward incompatibilities. The biggest pain is Date.parse is now default to parse dd/mm/yyyy (Europe...
SSL in Plain English 3 Sep 2010 | 02:46 pm
I recently purchased and installed a new SSL certificate from GoDaddy for Marrily. During the process, I came to learn more about SSL and the different steps to set everything up from scratch. There a...
Devise BCrypt::Errors::InvalidSalt Exception 1 Sep 2010 | 07:27 pm
I ran into an issue with latest Devise (1.2.0 6e71eca). BCrypt::Errors::InvalidSalt in SessionsController#create invalid salt This was caused due to the fact that in later versions of Devise, the d...
Telling a good story 23 Aug 2010 | 03:25 pm
This summer I’ve been reading quite a bit. I read about Richard Feynman and found out that he is an original and very inspirational person. His outlook on life was extremely positive, and he was one g...
10K Apart Contest: Cheating by Compressing Your JavaScript and CSS to PNG Images 22 Aug 2010 | 05:18 am
I submitted my application entry, GithubFinder, to the 10K Apart Contest last night. GithubFinder is basically a Mac-like Finder app to explore a Github repository. A lot of the time when I’m visiting...
I made up my mind: no more VIM 6 Aug 2010 | 07:30 am
I decided yesterday to work with VIM (MacVim) fulltime for a week and see how it turns out. It’s been 24 hours, and so far my experience isn’t all that great! I miss Textmate really badly. And even...
