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	<title>Kangaroo Court {concept47 blog} &#187; ruby on rails</title>
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		<title>Passenger dying &#8230; too many apache processes</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/passenger-dying-too-many-apache-processes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/passenger-dying-too-many-apache-processes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[passenger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sysadmin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I encountered this problem when I first started working with Passenger, and have run into it repeatedly over the last year, so I thought I&#8217;d just throw out the fix I have for it.
Usually people having these problems are usually running the prefork MPM and have a section in their apache config file that looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get a 25% boost in your Rails app?</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/how-to-get-a-25-boost-in-your-rails-app/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/how-to-get-a-25-boost-in-your-rails-app/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was working on a rails app today, and got to wondering about the very many
SHOW FIELDS FROM
MySql queries I was seeing.
I had always thought about whether there was a way to get rid of those completely, or reducing the number of them by caching or something.
Well, today I actually did some digging and found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>requiring gems from github (specifically flickr-fu and xml_magic) using config.gem</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/requiring-gems-from-github-specifically-flickr-fu-using-configgem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/requiring-gems-from-github-specifically-flickr-fu-using-configgem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flickr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flickr-fu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruby_on_rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So the rails way of requiring a gem in your app is by using the config.gem instruction in environment.rb (as opposed to sticking a require statement in your environment.rb).
However including gems from github is a different beast &#8230; sometimes the gem author will tell you exactly how to do it, or sometimes they won&#8217;t, as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best gem/plugin installation doc I&#8217;ve ever seen</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/the-best-gemplugin-installation-doc-ive-ever-seen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/the-best-gemplugin-installation-doc-ive-ever-seen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rails gems plugins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If only more github gem/plugin installation docs were like this
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		<title>How to uninstall a plugin in Rails</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/how-to-uninstall-a-plugin-in-rails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/how-to-uninstall-a-plugin-in-rails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plugins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruby]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is simple, but I couldn&#8217;t find a decent google result for it.
Before you uninstall the plugin, you have to get its name &#8230; go to the vendors directory in your app folder and get the name of the folder

In this case the name of the plugin is &#8220;active_scaffold&#8221;
Go to the directory of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cakephp Filter gotcha for rails folks</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/cakephp-filter-gotcha-for-rails-folks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/cakephp-filter-gotcha-for-rails-folks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cakephp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually in Rails, if you specify a before_filter in the base controller &#8216;ApplicationController&#8217; (in application.rb), every other controller in that app inherits that filter, so that even if you specify a before_filter in another controller &#8230; the filter in application.rb always runs
Example:

class ApplicationController &#60; ActionController::Base
   before_filter :check_login
end


class UploadsController &#60; ApplicationController
    before_filter :get_data
end

The :check_login method is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New version (2.0.4) of Phusion passenger/mod rails out</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/new-version-204-of-phusion-passengermod-rails-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/new-version-204-of-phusion-passengermod-rails-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New release announced
Global queuing
We recently announced that we’ve developed a feature called global queuing. This feature was requested by 37signals. When global queuing is on, Phusion Passenger will load balance all incoming requests into the first available backend process. This is especially useful if you have long-running requests, e.g. requests that perform heavy calculations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gem install error &#8211; &#8216;cl&#8217; is not recognized as an internal or external command</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/windows/gem-install-error-cl-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/windows/gem-install-error-cl-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re here,  you are probably getting an error like this during a gem install on a windows box.
cl -c  -nologo -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAV
E_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -
O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG    -DVERSION=\&#8221;6.4\&#8221;  -DXS_VERSION=\&#8221;6.4\&#8221;  -IC:\Perl\lib\CO
RE  BitVector.c
&#8216;cl&#8217; is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE :  U1077:
Stop.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zed Shaw is a fan of Phusion Passenger (modrails)</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/zed-shaw-is-a-fan-of-phusion-passenger-modrails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/zed-shaw-is-a-fan-of-phusion-passenger-modrails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its old but I stumbled onto this just today. Zed Shaw (the creator of that ol&#8217; faithful Ruby server mongrel) is a fan of the Apache Passenger (modrails) guys
I also met the Phusion Passenger guys and  holy fucking crap are they on to something. If anyone is going to actually take  on Mongrel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New mod_rails/passenger memory tools and cool tutorial</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/new-mod_railspassenger-memory-tools-and-cool-tutorial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/new-mod_railspassenger-memory-tools-and-cool-tutorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been mucking around with passenger quite a bit these days. I&#8217;ve got two staging servers running it for two different projects and another running a production version of one of those projects.
In digging through the documentation I discovered two new command line tools that come included with the 2.0 version of Passenger.
From the documentation
passenger-status
One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current Active Scaffold Rails plugin (1.1.1) not compatible with Rails 2.1</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/current-active-scaffold-rails-plugin-111-not-compatible-with-rails-21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/current-active-scaffold-rails-plugin-111-not-compatible-with-rails-21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re seeing errors like this
... gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/aliasing.rb:31:in `alias_method': undefined method `find_full_template_path' for class `ActionView::Base' (NameError)
You&#8217;re not crazy. 
Active Scaffold (1.1.1) doesn&#8217;t play nice with Rails 2.1!
Go here to get an Active Scaffold version (master) that does.

]]></description>
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		<title>The haters crawl out of the woodwork on mod_rails project</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/the-haters-crawl-out-of-the-woodwork-on-mod_rails-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/the-haters-crawl-out-of-the-woodwork-on-mod_rails-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
- Ziglar, Zig
I couldn&#8217;t believe that someone would have the gall to actually go on record with grouses as trite as these against the creators of mod_rails &#8230; but they did
Basically here are their complaints about Phusion Passenger/mod_rails
- Their product has ‘Enterprise’ in the title
- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mod rails Passenger 2.0 RC2 released &#8230; even more stable?</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/mod-rails-passenger-20-rc2-released-even-more-stable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/mod-rails-passenger-20-rc2-released-even-more-stable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The kickass developers over at Phusion have released an update to Phusion passenger (or as I prefer to call it &#8230; Apache mod rails).
You can see the list of original improvements here

It seems that this particular problem with mod-rails hanging after a few hours and taking down apache with it (I experienced this in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruby on Rails gotcha with empty? vs nil?</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/ruby-on-rails-gotcha-with-empty-vs-nil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/ruby-on-rails-gotcha-with-empty-vs-nil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got bitten by this one in Ruby on Rails.
If you use empty? to check a hash slice that doesn&#8217;t exist you get an error, instead of the behavior of nil? which simply  reports that it is actually nil &#8230;

irb(main):004:0&#62; test = {}
=&#62; {}
irb(main):005:0&#62; test = {'test' =&#62; '1'}
=&#62; {"test"=&#62;"1"}
irb(main):006:0&#62; test
=&#62; {"test"=&#62;"1"}
 irb(main):007:0&#62; test.empty?
=&#62; false
irb(main):008:0&#62; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443</title>
		<link>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/98address-already-in-use-make_sock-could-not-bind-to-address-0000443/</link>
		<comments>http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-rails/98address-already-in-use-make_sock-could-not-bind-to-address-0000443/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ruby on rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran into this problem after I installed mod-rails on a cent OS server.
To get my changes to take &#8230; I kept running
httpd -k graceful
and it kept working until, all of a sudden, it didn&#8217;t.
This was the error I got
[XXXX@XXXXXXXXX]# httpd -k graceful
httpd not running, trying to start
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind [...]]]></description>
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