November 2010
4 posts
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Apache and Snow Leopard 10.6.5 upgrade glitch
I upgraded to 10.6.5 today and promptly discovered that I couldn’t restart Apache. I kept getting this error: /usr/sbin/apachectl: line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument A quick search and I found this post and it worked for me.
Nov 11th
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Passenger Error: The application spawner server...
I got this error this morning after I thought it’d be a good idea to migrate my new Rails 3 app to Ruby 1.9.2. Kind of a weird error because it doesn’t seem that helpful on the surface. Digging into the Apache error logs revealed this error mesage: [BUG] cross-thread violation on rb_gc() (null) Ok, now we’re getting somewhere. This is an error due to gems being compiled...
Nov 5th
Override a rake task
Today I ran into a problem where we have a company gem that includes a bunch of helpful rake tasks, one of which imports a production database into your dev db. I wanted to do some stuff after this rake import task that was specific to the application I’m working on. I first tried to overwrite the task, like you would do with any Ruby method. No dice though, this had the effect of...
Nov 3rd
Sparrow
paulyoung: Sparrow is like Tweetie for Gmail.
Nov 1st
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