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rails console won't start (ubuntu)

I'm getting 'Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.1. Please install RubyGems and try again: http://rubygems.rubyforge.org' error. However... gem -v Returns "1.3.7". afaict, I have RubyGems 1.3.7 installed... Any help appreciated ...

Using pipes to delete all occurences of Thumbs.db file from Ubuntu Laptop

I have a laptop installed with Ubuntu 10.04. I migrated some of my files from one computer to this computer. But there are some files like Thumbs.db file whose every occurrence I want to get rid of. I tried using locate Thumbs.db | rm But dis didn't worked out (and clearly it should not). Then I tried using following, but quite expe...

Increase space for /root in Ubuntu Wubi

Hi, I have ubuntu installed inside Windows 7 through Wubi. I need to increase the size of /root or root.disk. How can I do this? wubi-add-virtual-disk does not work since root.disk is already present. THanks, SM ...

gem --version different to sudo gem --version :(

I'm a bit of a Linux noob trying to get ruby, rails, mysql and sqlite all playing nicely on ubuntu 10. I am getting errors, and I realized that the versions are different for sudo versus normal user! mpw@ubuntu:~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0$ gem --version 1.3.7 mpw@ubuntu:~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0$ sudo gem --version 1.3.5 I have used RVM...

Installing rmagick on Ubuntu

Hey all - I'm trying to get RMagick setup on Ubuntu 10.04. Looked here but had no joy. I even compiled and installed ImageMagick from source, but the instructions here still didn't help me when I try to install RMagick using RubyGems. I got this error: carcher@carcher-laptop:~/Code/temp/RMagick-2.13.1$ sudo gem install rmagick Buildin...

security issue running jruby on tomcat6

i deployed a jruby/rails app to tomcat6 through a warbler-built war. system is ubuntu 8, running tomcat6. when i try to start the app, i get the following stack trace Sep 13, 2010 7:57:24 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log SEVERE: Application Error java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.ut...

s3cmd sync not setting ACL to public

Hey all, I'm trying to use s3cmd on ubuntu 10.04 to sync with a local folder. This is working great for getting the contents from the local drive out to S3. However, I want the file ACL to be "public", yet all the files are coming through without it. In my .s3cfg file, I set: acl_public = True I've tried: s3cmd sync -P --delete-rem...

ImageMagick conflict on Ubuntu running webbrick

Hi all I am trying to install refinerycms, a Ruby on Rails CMS on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I run rails server and I get the following exception: carcher@carcher-laptop:~/Code/tgc$ rails server => Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.0.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server Ex...

php silently ignoring include on localhost, but not on external server.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with Apache2 and PHP5. I have a directory structure like this: \www\ \index.php \parts \head.php \body.php Inside my index.php I have a command <?php include("parts/head.php") ?> and the equivalent for body. These files both exist and they contain more php and html code. The on...

Server Costs for a Computing-Intense Application?

Hi, I have a scientific application that I built in Python (the application's 'critical areas' are optimized with Cython, for increased speed). Every instance of the application is given a text file (with parameters) an an input. The application reads the parameters from the text file and, using data that is stored in the hard drive, r...

Selenium issues with IE tests

When I change mt test browser to IE using the following line of code: self.selenium = selenium("localhost", 4444, "*iexplore", "http://www.mydomain.net/") I get the following error: Exception: Failed to start new browser session: java.lang.RuntimeException: SystemRoot apparently not set! It works perfectly fine using firefox and Ch...

Cannot access Symfony Framework from Remote Machine

I just installed Symfony framework on my laptop (running Ubuntu 10.04) but I want to be able to develop it from windows machine. Here is my apache config file for the site: # Be sure to only have this line once in your configuration NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080 # This is the configuration for your project Listen 8080 <VirtualHost 1...

Eclipse C++ On Ubuntu installation Process

Hi, I am now working on a data transfer project under Linux. The Project Team choose putty to login in linux server via vim to development, But I think the efficiency is too low. Now I choose Eclipse for C++, and distributor the version "eclipse-cpp-helios-linux-gtk.tar.gz" on Ubuntu. However, I encountered a problem: My Linux syst...

ubuntu can't get lighttpd server to start with my [ipaddress]:[port[

I'm trying to run lighttpd on ubuntu in parallel with Apache, but it won't startup on the ip address and server that I have specified. I have the following configuration: server.document-root = "/var/www" server.port = 8000 server.bind = "#.#.#.#" where the #'s are replace by the IP address of my server. However,...

Ubuntu directory for storing files

Hi, I have a server running on Ubuntu which creates lots of data and media files. I would like to know what is the best location to store the files. Requirment : My application running on java server(tomcat) needs to read, write and delete these files. There could be 100s of these files and the files could be huge. I would like to ...

Ubuntu Network Connections & Condor

How hard is it to take 10 new computers (all of the same maker / spec), install ubuntu on them and connect them all in a network? any hints on where to start? how hard is it to have them all part of a 'grid' (say, through condor), so that jobs can be submitted to a central node and be processed across the network? any ideas how to do it...

Pear downloading packages instead of installing after php downgrading to 5.2 on ubuntu 10.04

Hello Good poeple! I've downgraded php to 5.2 in ubuntu 10.04 and it seems i can't install new pear packages. the existing packages i had by typing pear list are : Package Version State Archive_Tar 1.3.3 stable Console_Getopt 1.2.3 stable PEAR 1.9.0 stable Structures_Graph 1.0.2 stable X...

Passenger rake not found! Ubuntu (10.04)

Okay, so I installed rvm and everything as root. Then I installed Ruby Enterprise Edition with rvm. Now I've been having a TON of issues with rake and rvm so far and I'm not too sure as to why. I had to manually create links in my /usr/local/bin to rake to get rake working. But when I passenger-install-nginx-module Welcome to the Ph...

How to get Xlib code work in eclipse for C++ ubuntu

I have some code with the following headers for Xlib but don't know what to do to make it work...I can't find these headers. #include <X11/Xlib.h> #include <X11/Xutil.h> #include <X11/Xos.h> #include <X11/Xatom.h> Sorry new to this.. Okay so now I can view the headers in the foldrrs in my eclipse IDE. and i get the following errors.Th...

C Variable from Terminal

Hey guys, I'm writing a program to read a file and display the number of lines and words in said file, simple stuff. What I want is to be able to run the program from terminal (running Ubuntu) by simply typing: count But I'm not sure how to get the filename into a variable in the C program. Little help please? Thanks in advance. ...