To get detailed information about a Linux PID you can use the strace command. If strace is not installed it can be installed via yum using the command below. Strace Install: bash yum install strace Below is a sample output from using the strace command on a Litespeed web server process.
Starting ruby on rails in development mode with Litespeed is easy. You need to make sure that your database.yml is configured to handle development mode as well. Follow the steps below to start Litespeed running Ruby on Rails in development mode. Please note both cofiguration settings listed in step one which include setting this to…
Downloading Flash movies from any web site is easy using FireFox with the FlashGot plugin. Once installed you will be able to download any Flash movie with ease and then once downloaded use any number of applications to convert to whatever format you want. To accomplish downloading a Flash movie and converting to .mp4 format…
I wanted to start syncing a git project to my Windows XP laptop so I installed msysgit because of the good things I have heard about it. The latest version was 1.6.2 so I figured that was a good place to start. Using a clone command I knew works on Linux since I use it…
When attempting to install the Ruby JSON gem on Windows you are most likely going to get an error similar to the below. The trick is to instead install json_pure gem using the syntax listed below the error. Error: bash C:\>gem install json Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing json:…
This means nmake is not installed on your Windows PC. To install you need to downloading, extract, and place two files into your $PATH. Follow the couple steps below to install nmake on your PC. In my case I installed nmake on Windows XP. Download nmake: Visit the following link to download nmake. Extract nmake:Run the Nmake15.exe…
When attempting to install a gem using cygwin on a Windows XP machine I received the below error. I was hoping I wasn’t going to have to reinstall RubyGems underneath cygwin because it would have just been a pain. I had Ruby installed and operational underneath cygwin but for some reason rubygems was not working.…
I am starting to learn ruby and am working on a test script to import some data into a MySQL database. I am using the below code found on kitebird.com to first get the MySQL connection from Ruby working. The code was producing an error which I figured might be because I installed the MySQL Ruby…
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…