23 Oct 2008

Exceptional: Another rails application exception tracking application

applications, gem, plugins posted by Akhil Bansal

Some days ago I found HopToad, as a subtitute of exception notifier plugin. Now, today I found another rails exception tracking application named Exceptional. Hoptoad is free while exceptional is paid. :)

07 Aug 2008

Installing gem on Leopard

Leopard, gem, rails, ruby posted by Akhil Bansal

May be you guys have noticed that when you try to install a new gem on your machine it says some thing like “Updating meta data for 500 gems” and display one dot per gem. These dots moves very slowly and stops in some time.

I faced this situation many times and found a solution some where on net. I don’t remember the link but it worked.

According to that, you just need to add:
require ‘resolv-replace’
as the first require in /usr/bin/gem file.

enjoy!!

04 Jul 2007

How to install RMagick Gem on Linux/Ubuntu

RubyonRails, feisty fawn, gem, linux, rails, ror, ruby, ubuntu posted by SUR

While installing RMagick on Linux, if you are getting errors like this
“GraphicsMagick-config… no configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program. …”,
below is the solution for this error.

RMagick requires ImageMagick and which further requires loads of dependencies already available to get installed and work properly. I was figuring out of those all, and thank god got a quite simple and elegant way to do all that in just three commands.
First you will have to install imagemagick then libmagick9-dev and then finally you can install rmagick.

Here are the commands…