Great little gem that let's you quickly and easily send out mail from your ruby scripts. gem install pony require 'rubygems' require 'pony' Pony.mail :from=>"me@example.com", :to=>"you@example.com", :subject=>"hello", :body=>"world"

I ran into the same problem when installing mysql gem for Rails development. This fix worked for me http://seanbehan.com/programming/fixing-mysql-for-rails-2-2-development-on-mac-os-x/ The same thing works with the data objects gem. Just specify the path...

wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-0.900_2.tar.gz tar xzvf redis-0.900_2.tar.gz cd redis-0.900 make mv redis-server /usr/bin/ mv redis-cli /usr/bin/

Installing monk like this will fail gem install monk You'll need to install the wycats-thor gem first with this command gem install wycats-thor -s http://gems.github.com

Sinatra won't reload your files. So if you're developing your app and want to see any changes made in the browser, install the shotgun gem. gem install shotgun You can then use shotgun to run your server shotgun your_sinatra_ditty.rb Presto, your ditt...

Check it out http://sinatra.seanbehan.com/ This assumes Apache2 and the Phusion Passenger module have already been installed. If not you can get up to speed w/ this resource http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/new-ubuntu-slice-apache-mysql-php-ruby-on-rail...

Super simple to get double click "desktop" like functionality out of Prototype! For some reason, googling it doesn't yield many useful results. http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=double+click+in+prototype+javascript&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=peEfEjG9pWY :( Anyway, he...

Login as the root user or as a user that can execute sudo commands. #open this file for editing... vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config Find the line that reads Port 22 Change this to an different and an available port number... Port 8000 Next reload ssh /etc/...

I normally install postfix for my MTA. However, I've never really used sendmail so I'd decide to give it a whirl for a new application I'm working on. I don't use it for anything but handling the mail that the application needs to send out, like new user ...

Looks like there is a problem with using the attr_accessor method with datetime form fields http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8983 In Rails 2.3.2, for me at least, the problem seems to be popping up again. While trying to process a date for credit card v...