Dynamic50 Web Design and Development, Ruby on Rails Specialists in London and Oxford, UK

In the spirit of nosql, today I am going to show you how to install a Rails stack on Ubuntu using Mongodb, Nginx, Passenger, Ruby 1.9 and all nicely monitored using monit, my monitoring tool of choice (why don’t I use god I hear you ask? => monit = easy maintenance and less resource heavy). [...]

Here’s a quick howto guide on installing Ruby 1.9.1, Rubygems 1.3.5 and dependencies on Ubuntu. The apt-sources version of Ruby is not the latest version, as such it is better to compile everything from source. First make sure your package sources are up to date and you have build essential and zlib1g-dev installed: sudo apt-get [...]

We recently had to delve into the world of .NET, which meant using Mono on Ubuntu. Ubuntu 8.10 ships with mono 1.9.x whereas we needed the most up to date version, mono version 2.4 These are the instructions on how we installed mono 2.4 and its pre-requisites on a slicehost slice running Ubuntu 8.10 Firstly [...]