I always wants to try Ruby but i didn’t determine to make it. Now i decide to create an Ruby on Rails web application as a learning goal.
So the first thing is to setup the development environment. As stated in the Rails documentation, there maybe some problems when running on Windows. so i created a virtual machine which is a Ubuntu Lucid and get everything ready there. Moreover, Rails 3.0 requires Ruby 1.9.2. So let’s start install the ruby first.
Recently, i was working on setting up a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Handy Heron) server. i found that the PHP installed by apt-get is 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12 and the PHP GD Library is not up-to-date and caused a warning in the Drupal report. I have to download the latest and stable packages in order to solve the problem.
Luckily, i found a very useful and up-to-date Debian repositories for my Ubuntu server. You could find the latest stable LAMP packages there. It is called Dotdeb. Just complete the following steps then you can connect to the Dotdeb repositories. Continue reading Linux – Get The Latest LAMP Package→
This afternoon i was checking the reason why my Ubuntu VM image cannot connect to the internet and i found the IPv6 setting in ifconfig. Since i was in bad mood, i wanted to disable the IPv6 in Ubuntu. (Actually the connection problem was not related to it) Continue reading Ubuntu – Disable IPv6→