Windows is Evil
January 24th, 2007
Simple lesson for other Ruby on Rails noobs – editting dispatch.fcgi in Windows and then uploading to your website may be hazardous for your site!!
Although I haven’t had other issues with doing so, after totally destroying RubyNoob over the past few days, I’m always going to do any editting of dispatch.fcgi through my Dreamhost shell! Apparently some invisible characters can get into your file and keep your site from starting up.
I’ve also updated to the latest and greatest typo, but in the process I’ve lost the comments for the 4 or 5 most recent posts – and that sucks. I’ll see what I can do to resurrect them – or at least the ones worth bringing back.
I have an interesting article coming soon about Dreamhost and Ruby on Rails and Applications failing to start. I’m going to try to make the changes I’ll be mentioning and we’ll see if RubyNoob becomes more stable.
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June 10th, 2007 at 07:21 PM Check out my really old blog post on the subject of Rails development on Windows and Deployment to unix to solve this problem permanently. http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/11/03/windows-unix-development-with-rails/ Windows isn't evil, just different...
June 10th, 2007 at 07:21 PM Thanks Tom. SwitchTower is now called Capistrano, right? Or is it some other tool? And yes, I know Windows isn't _really_ evil, but it sure makes a convenient punching bag when one is frustrated.
June 10th, 2007 at 07:21 PM Yes, Capistrano, and actually is Subversion the one that takes care of the line feed style.
June 10th, 2007 at 07:21 PM That's absolutely correct. I've been bussy for hours finding out why my rails app wouldn't work on dreamhost. Then I discovered that I should edit HTACCCES and dispatch.fcgi with pico (shell command). Pretty frustrating ...