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Kev

See, this is a good excuse for you to pick up a motorcycle and do a little road trippin’ together.

Yep, I saw that Kerri is back. Sent her a reply to her “we are in the States email”. No response yet.

Nice photos! This is close to where I grew up. My favorite drive in Northern NM starts from my home town, Chimayo. It takes the high road to Taos which winds into the Sangre de Christo’s (the rockies basically) passing through lots of small towns along the way. Each with their own colonial style church. From Taos I head out to the gorge bridge (which fyi was the bridge used in Natural Born Killers) and due West on US64 towards Tres Piedras. This peaks out at Los Brazos cliffs http://www.sangres.com/nationalforests/brazoscliffs.htm - a spectacular view from the top and heads down into Tierra Amarrilla. If you head South you will run into the echo amphitheater point of interest. Its a natural amphitheater formation where you can play with echos. http://www.vivanewmexico.com/ghosts/echo.html
Further south is Abiqueue Lake (home of Georgia O’Keefe).

Now you’ve got me itching to buy a motorcycle again.

Picked up on your site awhile back and check in from time to time. Glad to see you are doing well.

btw - I’m still in AZ.

-Gilbert

p.s. Kerri is back stateside

We are asking everyone to park on the lower portion of the hill and side streets, where possible. I know this is a major inconvenience but we’ll try to make it as easy as possible.

Let me know if you need any additional parking directions and/or concerns. Otherwise, see you at the party!

My problem with Adium is that it seems too buggy to rely on. I also don’t have contacts across multiple IM clients and use Skype only. If I had to support multiple IM clients then maybe Adium would be of use to me.

As for having Twitter in your IM client, that is interesting. Skype does that as well (via a plug-in if I remember correctly) but that seems wrong to me. In my mind those are two distinct forms of communication that need to be separated in order to reduce interrupts and stay focused on getting things done. That is how I reduce interrupts, at least.

It sounds like you are almost there but I would probably need to take a peek at your local environment to understand more specifically what you have setup. Just double check you have followed my notes above.

BTW, you might find this article useful in addition to my notes: How-To Setup a Linux Server for Ruby on Rails - with Phusion Passenger and GitHub. Give it a shot as it might shed more light on your problem.

It’s still not working, but when I tried to do the install on my notebook, I got a bit further, as follows. Now, when I try to run the scaffolded Rails application (called “testapp”), which is located in my /www/var/ directory, I get the “Welcome onboard” screen, but now if I click the “About your application’s environment”, I get a Passenger error screen. Looking at the apache2 error log file, it says that the rails-2.3.2 gem is missing. However, the gem is installed (as confirmed during the passenger-install-apache2-module step), and testapp runs fine when I run it from Mongrel in the same location (and its “environment” includes rails-2.3.2). echo $PATH shows that the directory with rails-2.3.2 is present.

What’s “Plan B”?

Not Found

The requested URL /testapp/public/rails/info/properties was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.9 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_mono/1.9 PHP/5.2.6-2ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/2.1.3 Server at localhost Port 80

rather than the anticipated environment.

I hate to say it, but I’m clueless about what’s happening, especially since I’ve now seen multiple screencasts wherein “It just works!!”

HELP!!!!

I would suggest that you start with the basics first which would be to confirm that you have Phusion Passenger configured properly. Instead of running your Rails app from your user home directory, I would create a simple Rails application with some basic scaffolding first and deploy it to the /var/www directory where you are currently able to serve up basic HTML pages. Just make sure your path looks like this:

/var/www/(rails app name)/public

…and that your virtual host reflects that fact as well. Then reboot Apache2 to pick up the new changes.

After that works, then you can focus on setting up your Rails app from your user home directory via a sym link as you have described.

BTW, the real reason you are probably hitting permission problems is because your user account is not part of the www-data group that Apache2 uses to serve up pages. You can work on configuring your user account to this group later but, again, keep it simple and just make sure you can serve up your Rails app with www-data permission. So do the following once you have the Rails app deployed:

sudo chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/(rails app name)/public

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/(rails app name)/public

That should allow you to serve up your Rails app with proper permission. Once that works, then you can move on to configuring your user account to work with Apache2.

I created a sym-link to the rails site. The sym-link is in /var/www and it points to /home/{username}/rails/{railsapp}/public. When I try to load that site, I get a 403 Forbidden “You don’t have permission …” error.

I tried following the writeup, but I found a few things somewhat confusing regarding the lines:

1. sudo usermod -a -G www-data
2. sudo a2enmod ssl

Specifically, does refer solely to the username? or, does it somehow include the password?

Thanks for any assistance.

Sandy