Monthly Archives: January 2009

monitoring your mongrel_rails with monit

By etagwerker | Published: January 27, 2009
Monit is a very useful tool for systems administration. It monitors processes (among other things) so that you don’t have to. If something goes wrong with your processes (or files), it can try to restart them or alert you. Either way, it helps a lot when you have unstable processes due to performance issues (which [...]
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Mac OS X 10.4 + Rails console + readline problem

By etagwerker | Published: January 19, 2009
Today I ran into this problem when trying to use my rails or ruby consoles: [etagwerker@benteveo photos]$ irb dyld: NSLinkModule() error dyld: Symbol not found: _rl_filename_completion_function Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.11.1/readline.bundle Somehow I thought I had solved this problem months ago, but it came back! (Or maybe I had never solved it for real). Today, I noticed this problem when trying to [...]
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cross browser compatibilities: theory vs. practice

By etagwerker | Published: January 16, 2009
One would imagine that Firefox 3.0.5 would act the same in both Windows and Mac OS X. Well, in theory they should, right? At least, in my head, I think they should. After all, the same browser in different operating systems should render HTML in the same way. One would expect that. But that’s only [...]
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