Note when a Ruby setup, Sinatra in this instance, says it’s missing rest_client it is missing the gem rest-client.

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It took a whole lot of looking but I finally figured it out, SSL pass through on the BigIP LTM.

When passing through a connection from HTTPS to HTTP the Virtual Server needs to have SSL Profile (Client) pointed to a SSL profile you created using your certs, HTTP Profile set to “http”, Port Translation set to Enabled and then (the final thing that ( Read more... )

Went to install ruby on a RHEL4 machine and wanted to get the latest and greatest, becaue the 1.8.1 packed for RHEL4 wouldn’t cut it. So I went out to the ruby site and grabed that package marked latest stable release. I believe this ended up untaring to be 1.8.8.1, which I then  installed. Upon trying to install gems and it wouldn’t go because it ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago we (not me, but my company) started work on our GoComics igoogle gadget for the release of igoogle v2. We weren’t really sure how well it was going to go over, it didn’t take long before we were suddenly at 150,000 users and we were listed along with the New York Times and Wall Street Journal on the front of igoogle as the gadgets ( Read more... )

Pushed a new site live today and I got a call this evening from my VP, she was getting a 500 error on the site. There is no way this site is getting to much traffic and it works just fine when I pull it up from home. I start log hunting and make my way to the Rails log:

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/mongrel_rails:281
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