Archive for October, 2009
October 25th, 2009 | 
Author: - Heading home from Tucson after a week's education on IBM's XIV product. First piece of formal education for many many months #
- Gee thanks Southwest. 30 min delay from TUS means I now fly TUS>SAN>PHX>AUS & add 4 hrs to my travel time. First (and last) flight with you #
- @alexbfree because they provide necessary sevices and screw their customers as a result? in reply to alexbfree #
- Hey car makers. Calling 30 MPG 'incredible' doesn't stop it from actually being 'shit'. #
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- Sounds good. Matt's El Rancho? #
- Summer must be over: just switched the HVAC over to heat for the first time since we moved in
# - Crap! Car battery dead for second time in 36 hours #
- @timdp if your source doesn't support JSONP, then you can always build a simple proxy on your server in reply to timdp #
- @nerdist Twitter accounts have RSS feeds: http://bit.ly/DAT2Y. Use that to update your page in reply to nerdist #
- In San Diego waiting for flight to Tucson. Marvelling at the fact that some airports still can't cope with high volumes of travellers #
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- Anyone in Austin know where I can get some grey paper in austin after 9pm, for art work? #
- @sonjarainey saves the day! #
- High humidity + central A/C = condensation on the *outside* of glass surfaces…. freaky! #
- @acarback oh yeah… i get the physics… it's just my entire life experience has seen it the other way round in my houses. in reply to acarback #
- @acarback england
english houses get sweaty on the inside. seems austin houses get sweaty on the outside in reply to acarback # - I just entered a drawing for gift certificates, free food,
and prizes by tweeting this. Visit http://dine123.com for details! @DineOnDemand # - @Adora cat-heter? in reply to Adora #
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All of my websites are currently running on a VPS server provided by HostIcan. I recently discovered a little quirk involving VPS servers and RubyGems.
I’ve started learning Ruby on Rails and the Ruby part uses things called ‘Gems’ in a similar way to Perl using Modules. Where you read ‘gem’, thing ‘cpan’.
I wanted to install a new gem on my server to support some Paypal integration, but ‘gem’ kept segfaulting on me.
If you’re like me, you’ll see this behaviour:
root@server [~]# gem install rubygems-update Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Terminated
It turns out that ‘Bulk updating…’ part gobbles up memory like it’s going spare and leads to a segfault.
The way to avoid this problem is to update RubyGems… but to do that, you need to use ‘gem’… and that leads to a segfault… and around we go again.
To break the cycle, you simply use:
gem update --system --no-update-sources
to prevent the updating of sources.
Once I’d done that, I found that I was still getting segmentation faults. Also, when I ran:
root@server [~]# gem install activemerchant --no-update-sources
I now got
ERROR: could not find activemerchant locally or in a repository
So the problem still wasn’t resolved!
The only solution was to force my system to the latest version of RubyGems. Unfortunately, this was not in my local repository. However, a manual update was pretty simple:
cd /tmp wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz tar -xvzf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz cd rubygems-1.3 ruby setup.rb
Job done!
- RT @nerdniteaustin: Just 2 days until more nerdy mayhem…http://bit.ly/W8xpT #
- @kellycree any reason behind the prolifix use of 'quotes' in your past 2 tweets? in reply to kellycree #
- @kellycree ummm prolifix -> prolific in reply to kellycree #
- Back in the US after 2 weeks away. Still in transit and feeling unpleasantly unsettled. Will feel better once I get home (I hope) #
- nerdnite tonight… ALRIGHT! http://bit.ly/W8xpT #
- @katmandelstein any citations to support that? Assume that's after taxes… in reply to katmandelstein #
- RT @nerdniteaustin: Another great nerdnite. Un-lived worlds, 8 bit strippers and wasp incest add up to awesomeness in reply to nerdniteaustin #
- @timdp stay strong against the hard sell. No mercy. No negotiating in reply to timdp #
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