13 May 2008, Posted by Jo Hund in Note to self, Ruby/Rails, 0 Comments

Require Ruby ‘Forwardable’ on Leopard

When I upgraded to Leopard, some of my Rails apps broke. Ruby threw this error at me:

uninitialized constant User::Forwardable

Here is a simple fix:

require 'forwardable'

in environment.rb.

It seems that on Tiger ‘Forwardable’ was included by default, but not on Leopard any more. Not exactly sure why this is.

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07 Jan 2008, Posted by Jo Hund in Ruby/Rails, 0 Comments

Litespeed: The best kept Rails deployment secret

There is a great way to deploy rails applications. I know it is being used on some high traffic production deployments. How come it never gets mentioned in any official Rails documentation?

Litespeed is its name. It is free — not open source though. And that may be the reason why you don’t hear much about it in the Rails community.

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