So Greg Goodwin has a very good post on installing Ruby on Rails with Passenger on a Media Temple dedicated virtual server. However, there were some post-install gotchas I ran into. I don’t recall running into these problems before. Perhaps I did and solved them last time, but did not write the solutions down. Well now I’m going to.
I wouldn’t have believed it, unless I saw it with my own eyes, but I think I saw my first Cash for Clunkers scam. I’m not 100% sure if that’s what it is, but the cynic in me thinks so. Take a look for yourself.
I helped deploy a Magento store today, but the client did not have all the products entered in the database, and won’t be ready to launch that part of the site for another month. So they wanted a “Coming Soon!” splash page to be at the subdirectory where the store is and password protect everything else. To do that I had to reconfigure the .htaccess file.
I finally got around to spinning off MyGoogleCal as a separate website. I opted to rename the script to RESTYLEgc to avoid stepping on Google’s toes. It was something that’s been gestating over the past year. I completed the site over the holiday weekend since I had the time available. The new site is at www.restylegc.com. I’m also hosting the script at Google Code, and I even added a Google Group to facilitate discussions. After seeing the comments top 100, I realize a blog really isn’t suitable for lengthy discussions. Hopefully, the forum and wiki features will be better for the end-user.
I updated MyGoogleCal4 with a small bugfix this weekend as well. That will be the last update. Future development will continue with RESTYLEgc. Since the code was originally public domain, I opted to go with an MIT open source license. I also got the code in a Subversion repository which I should’ve done a long time ago. With the Issues tab at Google Code, I can better track and encourage bug reports and feature requests.
The code is still free, but paid support is available. I’ve also got some other ideas of where I want to take the site. So stay tuned!