Installing Passenger on OS X 10.4

Getting Passenger (mod_rails) working on OS X 10.4 wasn't as simple as the screen cast or manual made it out to be. :( That's ok though. I dug into the recesses of my gray matter and got it to work.

The manual and even the install script eventually helped with part of it which was the custom install of Apache. I don't use the default Apache install on OS X and instead compile my own software. By setting a couple environment variables I was able to help Passengers install script find the right apache:

>> export APXS2=/path/to/bin/apxs

While the install script liked this and helped get it going it eventally coughed up during compile of the module. I noticed it was mentioning an invalid function used when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET was set to 10.1. Wait...I'm on 10.4 so I set this env variable to 10.4:

>> export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4

Voila! It works! Thanks for mod_rails Phusion guys!

Passenger a.k.a mod_rails is out

A little stealthy to be sure but also greatly appreciated. The guys at Phusion released a link to the new screencast with Ryan Bates and if you run the sudo gem install passenger command it all works now. So its out! This should be the next revolutionary thing in Rails. Easy Rails deployment.

MMORPG Football Game

Goal line blitz is a fun and addicting game. I love these text based simulation games that only require a few minutes a day or even week to keep up on and enjoy. This ones very cool because you can get involved in many different ways. Unlike Hattrick where you just run a team, in GLB you can own a team, GM a team or create a player. I've got a couple defensive players right now and a group of us from Utopia are running a little farm system of teams to try to boost our US and European teams. Great game!

Yet Another First Post...

...as if there hasn't been enough of these around. Trying my hand at the blog game once more...