Double Shot #36

I've actually spent a couple of days doing paid work on a Rails application. I feel all accomplished and stuff. Of course two thirds of the time has been off the clock as I scurry around researching things, but it's a start.

• Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' - I hit this moving an Edge Rails based application from development on a Mac to production on a Ubuntu box. The answer proved to be going into database.yml and fixing the production path to mysqld.sock, which Ubuntu seems to put in a different place for some obscure reason.


• Missing ActionController::Base::DEPRECATED_INSTANCE_VARIABLES - Another minor bobble I ran into moving from development to production in the same situation. The fix was to install libopenssl-ruby1.8. Not that I have the faintest idea why.


• How To Use Multiple Submit Buttons on a Form with Rails - I needed to know this. Fortunately, it's simple.


• SQL DSL - A library for creating SQL statements from Ruby code. Not quite what I need at the moment, but worth bookmarking for the future.


• Sample Rails App Branch: With SSL - Reference code for adding SSL to a Rails app.


• ActsAsPartitionable - Another approach to bringing enterprise-level database partitioning to Rails.