Monthly Archives: September 2011

WebSockets that Reconnect

Here is a JavaScript sample of a WebSocket that will try to reconnect every second if the connection is lost to the server. This is completely transparent to the end-user. function WS() { var _self = this; this.start = function() … Continue reading

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Passenger and ruby-oci8 (Oracle)

Oracle is going to drive a man to drink.  After getting our rake migrations to run with this solution, our application had issues.  We run our Rails app in Passenger + Apache2.  After we deployed, we got this error: ERROR: … Continue reading

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RabbitMQ on OS X via MacPorts

MacPorts installs an old version of RabbitMQ. To get the latest, you need to add the RabbitMQ repository as described here: http://www.rabbitmq.com/macports.html However, when you try and install it, it throws the following error: $ sudo port install rabbitmq-server Error: … Continue reading

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ruby-oci8 library problems

We started using Oracle with a Ruby on Rails 2.3.x project. I will say, it has been nothing but a pain. After getting the Oracle Instant Client installed and the ruby-oci library compiled, I kept hitting this error during the … Continue reading

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