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Can you suggest a nice user authentication system in Ruby on Rails?
09.14.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I am currently building a system at work and one of its required features is user authentication. I used restful_authentication in a previous personal project, but last week, I just found out a new simpler user authentication system in railscasts.com called AuthLogic. I tried to integrate it to my project only to encounter another problem. [...]
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Ruby on Rails Topic: Issue with Paperclip installation
03.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This is in regards to my personal project “frendsmo” which is a facebook/friendster clone. I am recently trying to build a Gallery page for the users where they can create, edit and delete photo albums. I looked at railscasts.com and downloaded their video tutorial on how to use Paperclip in ruby on rails. While in [...]
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Deploying Rails Apps in Passenger in SubURIs
02.23.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This is for future reference to other rails developers that uses Passenger, (which might be helpful to beginners as well.) Steps: 1. create a symbolic link that points to your rails public directory from the DocumentRoot. 2. edit httpd.conf and add VirtualHost. a.) add DocumentRoot b.) add RailsBaseURI “< /rails-app-subdir > ” 3. edit environment.rb [...]
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Video: Writing Multi-Tenant Applications in Rails
02.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?
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First look at Akelos PHP Framework
11.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Since I couldn’t sleep well last night, I just thought it was my chance to see and try out how to use Akelos PHP framework. It is said to be a port of Ruby on Rails, and so , it sounds like it (should) runs like Cakephp. Well, I was impressed. Everything went well for [...]
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Problem to installing Mongrel in ubuntu
11.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I had this problem when installing Mongrel on ubuntu hardy heron in my laptop. When I type, {code type=ruby} gem install mongrel {/code} This message appears:
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My First Attempt to install Phusion Passenger on our Fedora Core 7 Web Server
10.28.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

UPDATE: I’ve finally managed to install passenger version 2.0.6 on our company’s server. Everything went smooth. I had the urge to attempt to have Ruby on Rails Applications running on our fedora core 7 web server along with Cakephp applications today. I thought to use Phusion Passenger otherwise known as a apache module to enable [...]