Posted by
stoyan on 29-Mar-2007
Rubygems on Debian “one-click installer”
Before I mentioned Rails on Debian ‘one-click installer’ . Seems there is also a way to install ruby gems with apt-get on debian-like systems . It’s in japanese, so just a short translation:
Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list :
deb http://backports.mithril-linux.org sarge-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://backports.mithril-linux.org sarge-backports main contrib non-free
Add to your /etc/apt/preferences :
Package: rubygems
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 900
Install rubygems:
apt-get update
apt-get install rubygems
The rubygems are installed in /var/lib/gems so we need to change the PATH environment variable in order to access gem command. Inside /etc/profile :
export PATH="/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH"
Install rails
gem install rails -y
Offtopic: …No longer will we have to use RESTful URLs such as article/1;edit. We’re going back to the more normal-looking article/1/edit …
Posted by
stoyan on 16-Jun-2006
- Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list :
deb http://rails.netlab.jp/debian sarge rails
- Install Rails
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rails
- There is no step 3 
And if your question is “who the hack made this package?”, it’s NaCl – the company where Matz is working 
Posted by
stoyan on 22-Mar-2006
We are using Xen 3.0.1 on Debian Sarge from several months. Working great. Finally there is an upgraded manual on HowtoForge – The Perfect Xen 3.0 Setup For Debian . Good. Also something else bring my attention: Setting Up A Highly Available NFS Server . We need this for live migrations – Xen need to get the OS filesystem image from the NFS, but it becoming a single point of failure. Anoter solution can be MogileFS – open source distributed filesystem.
Like a long time shot Parallax (cluster storage system under development by the Xen team with COW and snapshot features) seems pretty atractive.
_Update 28-03-2006: the last missing part from the setup was reliable database backend, found: Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster _
Posted by
stoyan on 06-Feb-2006
From Peter Busser’s email to the RSBAC ML:
I have compiled a number of RSBAC and Adamantix packages for Debian Sarge . This allows Debian Sarge users to benefit from some of the Adamantix features…
Adamantix started like Hardened Debian. Using well tested and stable Debian base, they added a lot of modern security stuff: PaX , SSP , RSBAC , making the distro one of the best choices for servers. I was involved in the early stages of the project but stopped contributing, because I was short of time. Still I’m following their progress and I’m happy to see good stuff going to the mainstream Debian also.
For homework: Chicken – Scheme-to-C compiler – CHICKEN is a compiler that translates R5RS Scheme into portable C using a technique developed by Henry Baker (“Cheney on the M.T.A.”).
Posted by
stoyan on 06-Dec-2005
In the latest lighttpd-1.4.8 release, they removed the debian/ support (from the changelog):
removed debian/ dir from source package on request by packager
Sad 
For me i solved the problem with copying the directory from the old 1.4.7 release and fixing the changelog file. If you need better support, use bougyman’s repository. In your debian or ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list add:
deb http://debian.bougyman.com/ unstable main
Bougyman is a very interesting person. He is working for some US goverment organization and supporting a huge Ruby On Rails system (something like a paperless office) – PostgreSQL, linux virtual server powered FastCGI listeners etc. I learned a lot from him about using RoR in production environments. Thanks. Recently I found his typo blog – All-Purpose Log for Rubyists , full with useful information. Just to mention:
Posted by
stoyan on 17-Nov-2005
Recently installed Xen-based system. Have already working Debian, Gentoo and Slackware domU-s. Helpful pointers: