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Archive for November 2007

Is this dog 200 feet tall?

Ettore the Maremma Sheepdog

Building Ruby with OpenSSL on Debian

If you are building Ruby by hand on Debian and you need OpenSSL support, make sure to install the libssl-dev package (sudo aptitude install libssl-dev). The tricky part is that even if you don’t install it, configuring the Ruby build with OpenSSL (./configure –with-openssl …) will not complain that the necessary libraries are missing. Why? [...]

Offering defaults when prompting for user input in Capistrano

I use Capistrano to deploy my Rails projects. I often deploy the same project in several environments– in addition to the production server, we always have a staging server, and sometimes a “data” server where data can be entered before launch. What this means is that I need to modify the server and username variables [...]

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