Categories: Web Application Frameworks, Django, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano
New location for the mysql socket in Karmic Koala
by David Orkin on Nov.07, 2009, under Ubuntu, Ruby on Rails, 9.10 Karmic Koala
Just loaded up my development environment for one of my rails application, which I haven't used since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) to find that my application wouldn't run. Turns out that the mysql socket is now in /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.soc… more »
Deploying to Staging and Production Environments via Capistrano
by David Orkin on Oct.26, 2009, under Ubuntu, Capistrano, Ruby
Ok, so I admit it. Im late to the game as far as using capistrano for deployment of my rails applications. But I figured, today is a nice rainy day and a great opportunity to give this a shot. Below is the play by play for getting capistrano set up to wo… more »
Using Django to Serve Static Files in Development
by David Orkin on Oct.06, 2009, under Python, Django
So by default Django doesnt serve static files because, well, it doesn't serve them as well as a webserver like Apache would. There is a nice piece of documentation on that available here. more »
Template Inheritance in Django (aka The Django equivalent of a Rails layout)
by David Orkin on Oct.06, 2009, under Python, Django, Ruby on Rails
So I'm coming over to the django community from Ruby On Rails, and so far, Im fairly happy with Django as a framework. The python framework I initially used was pylons (note - I am hardly a pylons jedi) but one thing in particular is bugging me. The lack… more »
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