Update RubyGems 1.2 to 1.3.1 on Mac OS


Picture:Clock Published on February 16th, 2009 in Mac OS X, Ruby On Rails

Due to a nasty bug in RubyGems 1.2, you need to install a special gem to be able to update to version 1.3.1:
# sudo gem install rubygems-update
# sudo update_rubygems

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How to install Redmine on Dreamhost using Passenger


Picture:Clock Published on February 4th, 2009 in General

Just follow the online documentation on redmine.org, after which you will be able to access redmine, but all static files like CSS are not being displayed. To make this work, you have to delete or rename the .htaccess file in the public subfolder within redmine. Restart Passenger by executing “touch tmp/restart.txt” and all should be [...]

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Install flarcreate on Solaris


Picture:Clock Published on February 3rd, 2009 in Other

Because I installed OpenSolaris only with its Core Packages, flarcreate was missing. The script is included in the SUNWinst package, which can be easily installed from the installation CD or DVD.
1. Mount the media
2. Change to following folder:
/Solaris_11/Product
3. Now execute “pkgadd -d . SUNWinst”
This applies to older versions of Solaris as well.

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