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RoR Web Hosting

Paul — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:10:08 +0000

My web host, perfect though they may be, has no plans to support Ruby on Rails. Bummer. Anybody who can point me to a free site that will let me host RoR apps I build, please leave a comment. If it’s a pay service, it needs the following to be useful for me:

cost less than $10 month with a minimal setup fee
Have at least 3GB of space
Have a LAMP environment to hold my existing site
Have at least 30GB/month bandwidth
Have SSH access
Have good tech support
Have at least 25 email addresses

Edit: I really like DreamHost, and they’ve got a fantastic hosting plan. However, there’s a $50 setup fee. It’s either TextMate or a hosting account. Unless I can get the fee waived for switching.

Sheep and Moose on Rails

Paul — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:49:41 +0000

I’m going to do an experiment tonight. Ruby on Rails has really nice pluralization support. For example, recipes are stored in the database table recipes, but are manipulated (for the most part) by saying Recipe.something. I wonder how well this works on things like sheep and moose, whose plurals are exactly the same.

Stay tuned for the results.

I Hate Ruby on Rails

Paul — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:54:51 +0000

I hate it. I really do. Even the little bit I’ve done in it has completely spoiled me. Coding in RoR is like talking to a intelligent, beautiful woman. Coding in PHP is like talking to a pretty but stupid girl. Coding in ASP.NET is like trying to explain quantum mechanics to a miserable failure.

And that’s why I hate it. I hate it because I can’t be with it all the time. I hate it because I can’t know more about it. It is the bane of my existence because it is so wonderful.

Question Regarding MySQL and Ruby on Rails for Mac

Paul — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:00:09 +0000

I’ve just started dabbling in Ruby on Rails using O’Reilly’s example Rolling with Ruby on Rails and I’m having trouble getting it to talk to the MySQL database I have on my Mac. I’m getting the following error:

Mysql::Error in Recipe#index
Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)

Before you ask: Yes, I’m positive I’m using the right password because I can log into MySQL from the command line and through CocoaMySQL

Any help is appreciated, just post a comment.

Edit: I switched from running the server on the command line to running it from Locomotive and it works. (Well, listing and adding a new one. Haven’t gotten very far in the tutorial, yet.) Not a solution for managing a server over SSH, but a solution for developing it.