Git can track the file permissions on your source. This can be good, but for small projects on a webserver where permissions change from time to time, and permissions on development app don't match or matter anyway, it's often easier to just skip this che...

super easy gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module will walk you through the install and remember to copy paths to your apache config file. for passenger i kept it in mods-available/passenger.conf and then linked it to mods-enabled ln -s...

mysql driver is no longer bundled w/ rails. you'll need to install it yourself w/ sudo gem install mysql however, on ubuntu (heron) this won't work. issue these commands first sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev if libmysqlclient-dev...

paperclip is an awesome plugin for rails. it let's you attach an image to any of your models. installation and usage more information is available at http://jimneath.org/2008/04/17/paperclip-attaching-files-in-rails/ by default paperclip uses the image m...

Here are all the commands for setting up your Rails application to server requests over SSL -on Ubuntu, of course. There are great resources and tutorials at these websites. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/se...

Here are a list of commands to get up and running with Apache2 with Phussion Passenger for Rails, PHP5, MySQL5, Ruby on Rails with Gems, and the source control software Git. I think that this is a pretty ideal environment for a development box and even pr...