skater coder

 Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Kit Tools

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&displaylang=en

View the railscast on using thoughtbot’s paperclip

http://railscasts.com/episodes/134-paperclip

or

attach multiple images to a model using polymorphic paperclip

http://burm.net/2008/10/17/ruby-on-rails-polymorphic-paperclip-plugin-tutorial/

Did you customize your application master pages and get this error while trying to delete list columns?

Unable to validate data. at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySection.GetDecodedData(Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, Int32& dataLength)  
 
at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.Deserialize(String inputString)  

Ok that probably means you have a search box in the template which is messing things up, just remove it or hide it, and that will do the trick!

http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/

http://ispconfig.com/manual_installation.htm

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts

If you hit some errors, u probably forgot some of this:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9582&

rm /bin/sh (or if you want to be safe: mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.dash)
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

aptitude install libmysql++-dev

aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev

aptitude install libhtml-parser-perl libdb-file-lock-perl libnet-dns-perl

/etc/ftpd.conf

enable local_umask = 022

To uninstall (if you hit errors and need to reinstall)

rm -rf /root/ispconfig
rm -rf /home/admispconfig

Setting up your domains to point correctly

http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig_dns_providerdomain_schlund

use everydns.com if you need to

Proftpd

DefaultRoot ~
IdentLookups off
ServerIdent on “FTP Server ready.”

http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2007/2/23/adding-timezone-to-your-rails-app

http://weblog.redlinesoftware.com/2007/6/18/rails-timezone-s

For rails 2.1 onwards, just change environment.rb

eg.

config.time_zone = ‘Singapore’

sudo aptitude install imagemagick

sudo aptitude install libmagick9-dev

sudo gem install rmagick

sudo gem install mini_magick

Install RMagick on OSX

http://benr75.com/articles/2008/03/16/install-rmagick-on-mac-os-x-leopard-from-source

$sudo gem install thoughtbot-shoulda

make sure rubygems is updated or you will hit an error

http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects/shoulda

http://dev.thoughtbot.com/shoulda/

Cheat Sheet

http://kylebanker.com/blog/2008/09/shoulda-testing-cheat-sheet/

Being a linux newbie, took a while to figure out what to do. So I’m documenting the steps, might be useful for anyone else setting up a ubuntu virtualbox.

I’m basically setting up a Ubuntu host to run windows 2003 virtual machines.

Steps to get it all up and running

1. Install Ubuntu Server
2. Install minimal GUI (xorg, xterm, openbox)
3. Install virtualbox
4. Create windows virtual machine

Install Ubuntu Server

• Download the Ubuntu Server Editition from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
• Burn the downloaded image onto a CD using something like Nero
• Pop the CD into your soon to be Ubuntu server
• Boot from the disc and select the default/appropriate options to install Ubuntu

Install minimal GUI

• in the command line type
  sudo apt-get install xorg xterm openbox
• to run the GUI type
  startx

Install xVM Virtualbox

• Install xVM Virtualbox
• Go to Sun’s website http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html
• Get the link of the ubuntu version of virtualbox and download it and install it in xterm
  eg.
  wget http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/2.0.2/virtualbox-2.0_2.0.2-36488_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb -O virtualbox-2.0_2.0.2-36488_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb
• sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-2.0_2.0.2-36488_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb
• sudo apt-get -f upgrade
• sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers vboxuser

Create Windows Virtual Machine

• in xterm, type
  virtualbox
• Click on “New” button and just follow the instructions to install your virtual machine! :)

For the gems

gem update –system

Upgrading Rails

gem install rails –version 2.1.1