Paperclip, passenger and “not recognized by the ‘identify’ command”

If You do use awesome :) Paperclip library, and on application served by Passenger You get errors like: Avatar /tmp/stream.1170.0 is not recognized by the ‘identify’ command. most probably Passenger does not have setup environment and is missing a path. On FreeBSD identify is placed in /usr/local/bin and AFAIR this path is not included by …

Ups and downs with samba

Using Windows as development environment for Ruby applications is not very good idea. So I have moved to setup with FreeBSD on VMWare and access via samba to files. Far away from perfect but better than before. When I have changed VMWare player to VMWare server I made decision to create new virtual machine, since …

When timeout hit You with Amazon SQS on FreeBSD/VMWare

I become fan of Amazon’s SQS and ActiveMessaging plugin recently. Great technology, make separating user interface and time consuming operations super easy. I will write about my experiences more, but now simple tip if You are running development environment on FreeBSD inside VMWare. Often when doing publish to some queue I got timeout, which results …

Shuffling RubyGems versions

I do some Facebook work for my customer, and when I checked out current source into my dev environment, application didn’t want to work :) Basically Facebook related code did not initialized properly. I was curious what is causing it and finally gave up (RFacebook plugin upgrade did the job), but it seemed that it …

FreeBSD from a scratch for Rails

I had to prepare short information how to setup FreeBSD server to get Rails up and running. Not for production purposes but for development. Having it written down I decided to share with this. Here goes little howto (more on the way!): First You need FreeBSD. Fortunately we have virtualization nowadays! So I recommend You …