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So I wanted to experiment with Phusion Passenger on my home server. The server runs Ubuntu 8.10 and serves a bunch of small low-traffic sites through apache (including this blog). I saw that there was a package from brightbox for passenger on ubuntu and tried to install it. However, this package automatically disables the php5 [...]

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So i’ve been spending hours tracking this one down: I wanted to have cache sweepers in rails and followed the advice from railscasts and railsevny. Those tutorials tell you to put sweepers in an app/sweepers directory and add that directory to your load path. DON’T DO THAT. That simply did not work for me (using [...]

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So basically, the official plugin is old and cant really deal with restful routing. For some reason, when I used the url_for method in my views, the in place editor javascript function couldn’t interpret the (restful) route properly and sent a post request to ‘/controller/1/edit’ to an action named “1″ with an id set to [...]

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These might be completely obvious to everyone, but I found them useful:

If you want to migrate a specific database, you can do it by setting RAILS_ENV on the command line. Like this:
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
If you want to see all the rake tasks in your application with a description of what they do, execute:
rake [...]

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