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RVM – no such file to lo...

Posted by Jamsi on Jul 30th, 2011
Installed ruby 1.9.2 via RVM and getting the following error? no such file to load -- openssl Try getting RVM to install the required openssl files. Unfortunately this means removing ruby and installing it again. rvm pkg install openssl rvm remove...

Running Resque Workers from Up...

Posted by Jamsi on May 25th, 2011
I recently had the task of getting resque workings to start from Ubuntu’s upstart daemon. First I created a bash script with the following; #!/bin/bash # Load RVM into the shell source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Switch to the right...

Valum Fileupload +jQuery +csrf...

Posted by Jamsi on May 19th, 2011
I recently went to implement Valum’s Fileupload script with a Ruby on Rails jQuery project I was working on. One thing I figured out is that all requests in Rails3 must send also send the X-CSRF-Token. Now normally the rails.js jQuery adapter...

SQL – Changing to Britis...

Posted by Jamsi on Apr 28th, 2011
Error converting data type varchar to datetime Are you getting the above error? Run the following under your app user. select @@Language, @@Langid If it says us_english then you’re probably hitting errors when parsing dates as DD/MM/YYYY. We...