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Services that just return your public IP as text

I'm writing a script that does dynamic DNS updates for me, but my server is behind a router, and so I need to use a web service to determine my public IP. So far I've found this one which returns ...
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Redmine using fastcgi [closed]

I am a Software Engineer tasked with installing Redmine on our server. Currently it's running using WebRick from /usr/share/redmine but I would like to: have it run in /srv/redmine (chroot if ...
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Java Runtime Environment on OpenSuse 12.1 - which one to choose?

I'm running OpenSUSE 12.1 and want to use Java Runtime enviroment v. 1.6. They ask for an ssh-key. Which package should I take: the proprietary or the open source one? How would you install it? Via ...
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When to use Bash and when to use Perl/Python/Ruby?

We are doing all our scripting with Bash so far, but I'm starting to feel a bit silly about it. While we can of course do everything we want with Bash (it's quite powerful), I'm starting to wonder if ...
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“Permission denied” when trying to use RVM with Cron

I am trying to employ the method descibed here. My crontab: # m h dom mon dow command @reboot /home/qe2user/.rvm/environments/ruby-1.9.3-p125 /home/qe2user/Ruby/test/prog.rb > ...
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How to run bash script from windows using plink on linux

I'm trying to run a simple bat file from windows that will run a bash script on linux machine. The bash script is located on the linux machine. For example: I'm trying to run this bat file from ...
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How to get Ruby, when called from a shell script, to see RVM default Ruby

my ruby prog: #echoHW.rb while 1 < 2 sleep(10) puts "hey!" end the bash(?) script that calls it: #echoHW.sh ruby -v ruby echoHW.rb "$@" & I installed rvm, trying both "single user" ...
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trying to install ruby 1.9.3 - an “append” error is being thrown

I'm trying to install ruby for my new macbook. I've installed the rvm. Now I'm trying to install ruby 1.9.3 but it won't let me. I typed in "ruby requirements" and it says I need libksba. I try ...
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Using rvm within a bash script on CentOS 6.2

I'm trying to write a script that does goes through all the steps for installing and setting up a graylog2 server and web interface on CentOS 6.2. Here is the section that I'm having trouble with: ...
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libxslt is missing installing Nokogiri with RVM

It's been one month I'm trying to install the Nokogiri gem on Fedora 16 to run a friend's Rails project. I installed Ruby with RVM. Using gem install nokogiri returns libxslt is missing. please ...
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Fix Corrupted Ruby in Mac OS X Lion [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to reinstall/fix Mac OS X's system ruby without doing a complete OS reinstall? I screwed up my ruby buy executing the command sudo easy_install ...
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Problems installing Ruby 1.9.2 and rvm on Debian Lenny

I have currently have Ruby 1.9.1 (bad) and want to install 1.9.3 under rvm. However, rvm requirements gives a long list, most of which installed fine: install build-essential openssl libreadline6 ...
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sublime 2 rails multi line comments key command

when coding ruby in sublime text 2, are their key commands for multi line commentS? class Myclass include MyMethods def instance_method puts "hi from the instance method" ...
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Convert jruby linux program to windows compatible version [closed]

I have a jruby program developed under linux and I would like to bring it into an executable format so it can be launched from other scripts. It contains several system() commands and hard coded ...
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Problems installing ruby 1.9.3 on Snow Leopard

I am trying to install ruby 1.9.3 (I am running xCode 4.2) with the following command: rvm install 1.9.3 --with-gcc=clang Fetching yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz to /Users/myusername/.rvm/archives Extracting ...
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Installing modular-scale extension for Compass gives me errors?

I'm trying to install the modular-scale extension for Compass. I'm getting this error: $ sudo gem install modular-scale Password: Successfully installed modular-scale-0.0.4 1 gem installed ...
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Ruby Gem “mechanize” missing libxml2 on Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion)

I'm trying to run a Ruby script, so I installed Ruby together with Ruby gems on my Mac OS X 10.7 system. The script requires the Rubygem "mechanize" so I tried to install it by using: sudo gem ...
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How do I input Terminal commands when running a rails server?

I just started using Rails a few days ago, and I'm having trouble with terminal commands. The textbook I am reading keeps telling me to run Terminal commands while having a Rails server running. This ...
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Amazon EC2 and eventmachine encryption issues

I'm testing out an Amazon EC2 instance (Amazon Linux AMI 2011.09, EBS boot, 32-bit architecture with Amazon EC2 AMI Tools.) to see if it'll serve my purposes. I've written a small backend in Ruby ...
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Why am I getting “rvm: command not found” on Ubuntu?

I am trying to set up Siri Proxy, and I come up to the steps: rvmsudo rvm install 1.9.3 rvm use 1.9.3 --default rvmsudo gem install eventmachine CFPropertyList httparty json uuidtools But I can't ...
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How can I update Ruby and Rails on MacOS 10.6?

I just got a Macbook laptop that is running 10.6.3 AKA "Snow Leopard". I know it comes with Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.3, but I was wondering what the best way is to update those to Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails ...
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Why can't I set the default Ruby version in Ubuntu?

I'm trying to set my Ruby version to be 1.9.2, but I can't change it from the system Ruby installation. What am I doing wrong? My terminal output is: $ rvm list rvm rubies => ruby-1.9.2-p180 [ ...
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How do I execute a Ruby 1.9.3 program from Windows Explorer on Windows 7?

I wrote a Ruby program that will check a *.log file for key words and phrases. The program is called "Check_Log.rb". I use Windows 7 and I'd like to be able to right click the log file in Windows ...
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How do I alias a Homebrew installed Ruby 1.9 gem binary in /usr/local/bin?

Homebrew's Ruby 1.9 ships with rubygems. Doing gem install ... installs files and binaries into some long-winded path. For example, bundler is installed at: ...
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Host OS slow to find web brick server running on linux as guest OS in VirtualBox

I am running VirtualBox 4.1.6 on Windows 7 on fairly quick machine with 12G of ram. I have a virtual machine running Ubuntu 11 on which I am doing rails development using ruby 1.9.3 and rails 3. When ...
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why doesn't “which ruby” output anything?

I'm using Debian 6. I uninstalled ruby1.8, and then I installed ruby1.9.1. If I type "which ruby" at the command line, it doesn't output anything. It seems like it doesn't recognize it.
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Process monitor service in Windows

I need something that runs in the background as a service (Windows), watches defined process and when it crosses thresholds it restarts/stop/starts the process again? (similar functionality of rubygem ...
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Installing Ruby with Homebrew

I'm trying to install Ruby 1.9 using Homebrew. I'm using Mac OS X Lion, so Ruby 1.8.7 is installed by default. I've got Homebrew installed at /usr/local/bin/brew (well that's what it says if I run ...
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Homebrew keeps saying XCode is not installed

I'm trying to installed Ruby using Homebrew, the OSX package manager. When I run 'brew install ruby' I keep getting the message 'Warning: XCode is not installed!'. XCode is installed, it's lying. ...
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Error installing localtunnel on CentOS

i'm trying to setup localtunnel on CentOS 6. Installed ruby and rubygems versions are: ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i386-linux] (yum install ruby) gem -v 1.8.11 ...
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Ubuntu - Ruby Daemon script creates two processes - sh and ruby - PID file points at sh, not ruby

The PID file for a ruby process I have running as a daemon is getting the wrong PID. It appears that running /etc/init.d/sinatra start creates two processes - sh and ruby, and the PID that ends up in ...
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How to keep gems in sync for two ruby versions?

I use MacPorts to install and update two versions of ruby (1.8.7 and 1.9.2). How to make gems of both versions be in sync? Is it possible to use same directory for gems, but make native extensions to ...
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Redmine installation issues rake command issue, MySQL database issue?

I have somewhat of a complex issue involving several different programs including redmine, MySQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails etc. This is on Windows XP. I am following the redmine instructions here: ...
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Set the OS X clipboard to a rich text link in a Ruby or shell script

I'm trying to generate a report by using a Ruby script to parse an XML document. I'm pulling link text and the actual URL and I'd like to be able to format those in a way that I could simply ...
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Problems with git and bundler

I'm trying to set up Gitorious on my Server with this tutorial and having problems over problems with gem/git. After fixing a lot of libs and dependancies, bundler now won't work with git ...
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Can't find sqlite3 in this ruby/rails version using rvm

I installed rvm and am using 1.9.2 with rails 3.05. I was able to create a new application but once I moved into the directory and tried to start the server ("rails s"), I got this error message ...
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How to create a GEM_HOME for rvm?

I'm learning how to set up different versions of ruby with different versions of rails using rvm. Here's a link for the instructions http://beginrescueend.com/gemsets/basics/. It says Let's say, ...
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“Git: command not found” error while installing RVM on OS X

Working from my command line on Mac OS X Snow Leopard in directory /Users/michael, I did the installation line recommended by the RVM site: bash < <(curl -s ...
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How to install and use different versions of ruby?

I'm learning rails from different books that use different versions of both ruby and rails. Right now I have ruby 1.87 installed on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard (in /usr/bin), but need to also use ruby ...
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How do I set up Ruby + Thin server in Windows? [closed]

I need to setup the "Thin" server on Windows, but I'm running into some issues, anyone able to help?
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Are there any Google Chrome extensions for inserting Furigana over Kanji?

Are there any Google Chrome extensions or userscripts for automatically inserting Furigana characters over Kanji in web pages? Please don't suggest Furigana Injector, because it doesn't work and is ...
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Upgrading Rails Dev Unit from Snow Leopard to Lion

Should I take any considerations for my Rails 3.0/3.1, Ruby 1.9.2 development machine running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard before upgrading to OS X 10.7 Lion? Will there be anything that I need to ...
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What is the simplest way to download a gem without installing rubygems?

I would like to download a gem without installing all the required gems for a given gem. Specifically for the Rails 3 gem. It has a lot of dependencies, and I need to install it on a closed server ...
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How to make RVM hook into bash 4.0's 'autocd' option and run .rvmrc

I would like to know if there is a way to get RVM to work with Bash's autocd option. Manual cd commands execute the .rvmrc, but autocd does not. What currently happens: # (in ~/src, with ruby 1.8.7) ...
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Installation on Linux & Win7: Aptana, PostgreSQL, Ruby, JQuery (WWW on Apache)

Basically I have 2 systems, where I want to develop (and use) my application: A Linux (Debian) system. This is my server. Here I have PostgreSQL (& phpPgAdmin), Apache, Ruby. Typically I use ...
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Rake, Rspec and Windows

If I try and run the simplest of rake rspec tests in my windows environment (which I have basically no experience in) I get the following error: >ruby "D:\Ruby191\bin\rake" test ...
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Where can I find the rails executable in Debian?

I am having a problem with my installation of Ruby/Rails on Debian. I've installed Ruby 1.9.1(1.9.2) using the package manager and I've created links to ruby1.9.1 and whatnot to allow me to use the ...
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Change the path for ruby and irb to 1.9.2 in OSX

I recently used Homebrew to install Ruby 1.9.2 on OSX. The binary for the new version seems to be in /usr/local/bin. When I type "ruby" (or "irb") in a terminal, I want the binaries corresponding to ...
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How do I make Gedit run a custom command when I save a certain type of file?

Can I tell Gedit to automatically run a command like slimrb -p foo.slim foo.html whenever I save a file ending in .slim?
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How to set the default language in Notepad++ for Rails View files

Similar question to this but my question goes a step further. I'm developing in rails and would like Notepad++ to automatically use html formatting on files with the extension html.erb. For example ...

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