Over the weekend, I was rethinking the way we should deploy our Merb application (our API) for Defensio. Everything I’ll say here applies to Rails as well. Managing gems has been painful lately. Like most people, we’re freezing them, which helps tremendously. However, there’s a few problems with this approach: We can’t freeze C extensions [...]
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How to fix that Rubygems mess on Leopard
I love Leopard and I love my Mac. I think Apple made the right decision by bundling Ruby and Rails with Leopard. However, I believe they screwed up big time in the execution. Leopard’s Rails installation worked great until I updated Rubygems with sudo gem update –system. After I did that, most of my gems [...]