Anyway, here’s the file, so download and place it in your RAILS_ROOT folder:
Add to SVN Batch file

libxslt is missing. try ‘port install libxslt’ or ‘yum install libxslt-devel’

Well, it turns out there is no libxslt-devel on Ubuntu, instead you have to do

sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev

and then install webrat (via sudo gem install webrat or add the gem in your environment.rb file).

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


# END WordPress

Turns out there is a setting in Apache that disables the .htaccess files by default. So you have to enable this to allow the .htaccess files to be processed. The setting is called AllowOverride, and you must set this to All (it probably is set to None right now).

Change your Apache virtual host config file to something like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@server.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/

        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
....

Dustin Diaz min-height solution

If you want the whole explanation, go to this article, but if you just want the fix, all you have to do is this:

Download this file and store it in your home folder (ex: /home/yourname) with the file name .fonts.config (remember the leading dot). Restart X (press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE or log out and in again), and your fonts should be smooth as a you-know-who’s you-know-what.

Below are a few selected web sites captured before (left) and after (right) the font smoothing was enabled.

To convert an image from color to grayscale (and save the result to a different file), type the following curse:

convert image1.jpg -colorspace Gray image1_grayscale.jpg

If you just want to overwrite the original image, use this command instead (thanks CableCat for the tip):

mogrify -modulate 100,0,50 image1.jpg

Step 0: run sudo apt-get update (thanks for reminding me, HD)

1. run
   sudo apt-get install imagemagick
2. Then, install the imagemagick9 dev library:
   sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev
3. Last, install the RMagick gem:
sudo gem install rmagick
4. That’s it! Now peruse the RMagick documentation and start processing images!