Daily Archives: March 25, 2009

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This works for .html.erb files:

<% begin %>
<% if current_user.is_super_admin? %>
<p> this block will be commented out</p>
<% end %>
<% end %>

‘causing a section to not be rendered’ , you would want to do <% if false %> .. <% end %>

fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (Name or service not known)

ErrorsBy alex March 25, 2009 13 Comments

I was attempting to clone a github repo on a Slicehost account and received the error below. Its possible that github.com recently updated DNS so if this happens to you then you can use the temporary fix I located on github’s twitter account.

Error:fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (Name or service not known)

This error was caused by attempting to clone edavis10’s redmine repo using the command below.

git clone git://github.com/edavis10/redmine.git

Daily Archives: March 25, 2009

Commenting out blocks in Rails views (ERB files)

fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (Name or service not known)