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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…
When I downloaded the following file with Chrome: msysGit-fullinstall-1.6.1-preview20090217.exe I get this error when i double click it: “Non a 7-zip archive.” Works fine with Firefox 3. This is probably the case with all .exe files from the msysGit Google Code site.
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…
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:…
To generate Rdoc HTML documentation files for your Rails project, run: ruby rake doc:app This will create the following directory structure in your #{RAILS_ROOT}/doc/app directory: classes (dir) files (dir) created.rid fr_class_index.html fr_file_index.html fr_method_index.html index.html rdoc-style.css Here are some the other RDoc related rake tasks (listed by running rake -T) ruby rake doc:app …
This works for .html.erb files: ruby <% 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 %>
After WordPress 2.5 uploading files to posts has become much easier. When first looking into this I was confused though because I every time I would upload a file it would not automatically link to the file. I was assuming the file did not upload properly and that was the reason there was no file…
Outlook contacts not showing up in Skype has been a problem bugging me for a couple weeks but I have not had the time to look into it until tonight. I figured that it might be a bug or something with Skype since I recently upgraded however I was incorrect. For some reason when I…