http://www.enrailed.net Runr's Personal Weblog Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How do you make sure your Rails files are added to Subversion before you commit? I have a simple batch file (for Windows currently) which I use, thought I'd post it here if anyone finds it helpful. What's probably gonna happen though, is that someone points me to a better ... http://www.enrailed.net/2009/10/22/batch-file-for-adding-rails-files-to-subversion/ I was installing webrat on my Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron box and it gave me this error message: 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 ... http://www.enrailed.net/2009/06/16/installing-webrat-on-ubuntu-804/ I recently installed Wordpress on an Ubuntu 8.10 image and permalinks wouldn't work properly. I would only get a 404 File Not Found error when I enabled the pretty URL permalink structure. The Permalink function in Wordpress relies on a small URL rewrite statement that Wordpress puts in the .htaccess ... http://www.enrailed.net/2009/04/07/wordpress-htaccess-file-wont-work-with-apache/ I can't believe its not clearfix (sic) because this fixes clears! The tip is from 2005, I have no idea how everybody missed this, but anyway here it is: Simple Clearing of Floats http://www.enrailed.net/2009/01/06/a-better-clearfix-or-clearing-floats-like-there-is-a-tomorrow/ Here is my favorite CSS min-height solution: Dustin Diaz min-height solution http://www.enrailed.net/2009/01/06/css-min-height-tricks/ My main claim against using Ubuntu is that the font rendering is just ugly and uninspiring. I am no graphic designer, but I love seeing my XHTML rendered in Safari on OS X. Turns out there is a solution that makes Firefox on Ubuntu almost as good as Safari/OS ... http://www.enrailed.net/2009/01/03/how-to-get-smooth-fonts-like-safari-on-ubuntu/ This is something I do just too rarely to remember the syntax, so I decided to write it down. Here it is: 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 ... http://www.enrailed.net/2008/10/07/how-to-convert-an-image-to-grayscale-using-imagemagick/ Here's how to install Robin Sheat's eMusic download manager on Ubuntu (I'm using Hardy at the moment, but I don't think your mileage should vary too much, it is a Java program after all..). These instructions require that you have java runtime v1.5 or higher installed, let me know if this ... http://www.enrailed.net/2008/07/30/installing-emusic-download-client-for-ubuntu/ This is a short description of how I installed the ImageMagick framework and its Ruby wrapper (RMagick) on an Ubunty 8.04 (Hardy Heron) OS. This tutorial requires that ruby and gems are installed. See www.rubyonrails.com for more info. Step 0: run sudo apt-get update (thanks for reminding me, HD) run sudo apt-get install ... http://www.enrailed.net/2008/05/02/installing-imagemagick-rmagick-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron/