VPS Distro Question

I’m going to be signing up for a rimuhosting vps tomorrow. In my
limited
linux experience I like Ubuntu (setup a dev server from scratch on it,
thats
the extent of my experience). Any red flags for using Ubuntu as a the
distro for a apache2.2/mysql/mongrel pack. I remember coming acrossed
something about it not being as easy to get apache2.2 on some distros…

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:35:22 -0400
“blinking bear” [email protected] wrote:

I’m going to be signing up for a rimuhosting vps tomorrow. In my limited
linux experience I like Ubuntu (setup a dev server from scratch on it, thats
the extent of my experience). Any red flags for using Ubuntu as a the
distro for a apache2.2/mysql/mongrel pack. I remember coming acrossed
something about it not being as easy to get apache2.2 on some distros…

I use Ubuntu to develop Mongrel, so you should be fine for compatibility
reasons, just make sure you follow the Mongrel Debian documentation
(Debian’s special).


Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 – Come get help.

What’s the preferred way to get Mongrel all running these days? Are most
people running the testing distro?

On 9/26/06, Zed A. Shaw [email protected] wrote:

distro for a apache2.2/mysql/mongrel pack. I remember coming acrossed
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 – Come get help.


seth at subimage interactive
http://www.subimage.com/sublog/

Hi folks,

In my schema I have

create_table “post”, :force => true do |t|
t.column “title”, :string, :limit => 16,

end

And in my view:

<%= form.text_field :title, :size => “16” %>

My question is… can I get rails to automatically know the field
size? So my view wont have the magic number “16”, it will just
magically “know”.

thanks

+1 gentoo+nginx

-Ezra

We use FreeBSD + a Debian DB box. I’ve also used Gentoo and nginx
proxying
to it with it.

Vish

Yay, worked it out. Tonypm’s recent post gave me a clue

For a column “x” in your database/model:

    <%= form.text_field :x, :maxlength=>User.columns_hash

[‘x’].limit %>

Looks a bit ugly… especially when you want to set other
properties… any ideas on how to clean it up?

Cheers

On 9/26/06, blinking bear [email protected] wrote:

I’m going to be signing up for a rimuhosting vps tomorrow. In my limited
linux experience I like Ubuntu (setup a dev server from scratch on it, thats
the extent of my experience). Any red flags for using Ubuntu as a the
distro for a apache2.2/mysql/mongrel pack. I remember coming acrossed
something about it not being as easy to get apache2.2 on some distros…

I would say Gentoo, but those who know me, know I’d be very biased. :slight_smile:

I used Gentoo, Mongrel and Pound. I’m looking into switching from pound
to
nginx though.

Cheers,

Aaron K.
a.k.a. [email protected] :slight_smile:

On Sep 29, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Aaron K. wrote:

I used Gentoo, Mongrel and Pound. I’m looking into switching from
pound to nginx though.

Gentoo is so easy to be very biased about!

+1 :slight_smile:


– Tom M.
http://www.engineyard.com

Another VPS question - how does getting an IP/domain work? Could I
start
out just getting a vps with a static IP and then have a domain point to
it
once we get that ironed out?

+1 for gentoo+nginx+mongrel_cluster

Can you shed some more light on nginx ?