http://www.nogeek.org A Blog about Ruby on Rails, Merb, the Iphone and other ramblings Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en http://www.nogeek.org/2008/08/13/usersjasongreen-is-insecure-40777-it-may-not-be-group-or-world-writable-exiting/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/08/13/usersjasongreen-is-insecure-40777-it-may-not-be-group-or-world-writable-exiting/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:46:35 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=84 I came across this error today trying to run merb server. For some reason my file permissions on my home directory are messed up. To rectify this, the home directory itself needs its permissions set back to normal. Simply run the following command on your home directory: chmod 750 /Users/myhomedirectory My user name is jasongreen so I ran: chmod 750 /Users/jasongreen ]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/08/13/usersjasongreen-is-insecure-40777-it-may-not-be-group-or-world-writable-exiting/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/08/10/no-such-file-or-directory-tmpmysqlsock/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/08/10/no-such-file-or-directory-tmpmysqlsock/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:59:19 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=76 Today I started messing around with Rails again, after having spent the best part of the last months on Merb. Anyway the common link problem for the mysql adapter reared its ugly head as usual. No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock The solution to this is to create a symbolic link from your mysqld.sock to /tmp/mysql.sock But where [...]]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/08/10/no-such-file-or-directory-tmpmysqlsock/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/30/facebook-connect/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/30/facebook-connect/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:35:41 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=70 Facebook Connect came out on the 23rd of this month, and is a much modified and improved version of the notorious Facebook Beacon. It allows external sites to authenticate a user and share detailed information including friendships, albums and personal profiles through facebook. It is facebooks alternative to OpenSocial (and a little bit of OpenID), and it [...]]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/30/facebook-connect/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/29/how-to-jailbreak-the-iphone-3g-o2-uk/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/29/how-to-jailbreak-the-iphone-3g-o2-uk/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:20:19 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=64 I have finally got an IPhone 3g from an O2 store which happened to have two left, so can now use my phone contract properly again! Anyway, what you get with the jailbreak for the 3g IPhone is the installer app to install non apple-sanctioned software. At the moment not a huge amount is available, but [...]]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/29/how-to-jailbreak-the-iphone-3g-o2-uk/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/25/using-sake-to-keep-merb-and-datamapper-on-edge/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/25/using-sake-to-keep-merb-and-datamapper-on-edge/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:58:20 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=57 Here at dynamic50 we use the sake gem and associated tasks to keep merb and datamapper up to date locally. Why would you want to do this? It automates the compilation and installation of each individual gem It does automatic updates on your local gems from source You want to stay up to date as things are changing [...]]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/25/using-sake-to-keep-merb-and-datamapper-on-edge/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/23/led-zeppelin-and-my-guitar/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/23/led-zeppelin-and-my-guitar/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:09:50 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=39 I have decided to take my guitar out of its cover this morning, and have started to attempt the old favourite: Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin. I grabbed the tab from here. Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven ]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/23/led-zeppelin-and-my-guitar/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/23/the-new-apple-3g-iphone/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/23/the-new-apple-3g-iphone/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:04:30 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=36 The new Apple 3g IPhone has been out for a while in the UK now. I had the misfortune of losing my old one about two weeks now, and despite my best attempts to get either a replacement or an upgrade, I am now stuck in limbo, or Apple purgatory, with my contacts saved on [...]]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/23/the-new-apple-3g-iphone/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/20/interesting-times/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/20/interesting-times/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:36:56 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=27 Search Engine Optimisation with Wordpress plugins is pretty awesome. Heck I’m getting over 100 hits a day on a blog about the obscure. I’m impressed. Anyway, I have now left Greenvoice, and Bablo, and it is time for a change. What to do? Well I have a couple of ideas up my sleeve so watch this space [...]]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/20/interesting-times/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/20/how-to-configure-a-ubuntu-slice-for-merb-datamapper/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/20/how-to-configure-a-ubuntu-slice-for-merb-datamapper/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:53:56 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/?p=24 This is a very rough and ready explanation of how to configure a slice for merb + datamapper. This is for Ubuntu 7.10 - Add a user adduser jason - use visudo to add user to sudoers visudo - Stop remote root login vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config change PermitRootLogin to no - Logout of root log back in a new user (jason) - Update system sudo apt-get update sudo [...]]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/07/20/how-to-configure-a-ubuntu-slice-for-merb-datamapper/feed/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/01/17/iphone-jailbreak-status-113/ http://www.nogeek.org/2008/01/17/iphone-jailbreak-status-113/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:52:25 +0000 nogeek http://www.nogeek.org/2008/01/17/iphone-jailbreak-status-113/ Version 1.1.3 of the IPhone software (latest version) is currently not jailbreakable which means you cannot install any third party apps. I have just upgraded my Iphone, it was a difficult decision as was a weigh up between keeping my 30 something apps on the phone or losing it all to the new features such as [...]]]> http://www.nogeek.org/2008/01/17/iphone-jailbreak-status-113/feed/