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Archive for November, 2007

Installing Mongrel on Ubuntu ERROR: While executing gem … (OpenURI::HTTPError)

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If you get the following error:

ERROR: While executing gem … (OpenURI::HTTPError)
404 Not Found

when running the following:

sudo gem install mongrel

Then run it again. Sometimes it takes running the command several times for it to take.

Written by Shane

November 7th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException)

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If you run into this error:

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find rails (> 0) in any repository

while running the command:

CODE:
  1. sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies

just run the same command again and all should be good.

Written by Shane

November 7th, 2007 at 7:02 pm

JRuby 1.1 Beta Faster than MRI

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Exciting news for those of you that are following the break-neck pace of JRuby. Thomas Enebo has announced that the JRuby 1.1 beta (released this past weekend) is faster than the original implementation.

Today, Charles Nutter also announced that JRuby is currently faster than Ruby in 14 out of 18 benchmarks and gives specific reasons for the 4 tests that still lag behind.

What does all of this mean? Well, combined with the ever growing Ruby and JRuby community and the increasing performance of JRuby, expect to see an explosion of JRuby implementations including in the enterprise. Since JRuby is now the fastest implementation of Ruby on Rails you can expect to see tons of Java developers as well as Ruby enthusiasts to start giving JRuby more than just a once over.

Written by Shane

November 5th, 2007 at 8:04 am