Default bash prompt is limited. Good news is that it's highly customizable. Personally I have two requirements to bash prompt: I want two levels of folder hierarchy displayed (one is too confusing, full path is too long) I use Git for all my code (when I have it my way), so I want to see...

*Update*: Brew packages have changes so new way of getting things done:\ > brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php > brew install php53 --with-mysql --with-fpm > brew install php53-apc *Older instructions*: I am not a fan of MAMP, XAMPP or other pre-packaged Apache/PHP distributions, in general. Ever since OS-X started moving towards being POSIX-compliant operating system and equally...

There are many benefits of using JRuby with Rails, among others: great thread-support via JVM, easy integration with the vast amount of functionality provided by existing Java libraries, streamlined database access and deployment. We have blogged about installing latest Rails with native Ruby and NginX. In the following blog post we will go through the...

Drupal uses extended version of SimpleTest for automated testing. It provides two parent classes for test cases: DrupalWebTestCase and DrupalUnitTestCase. Documentation describes the DrupalWebTestCase as the one appropriate for "typical Drupal tests". However, a quick look at its setUp method is enough to notice that when this class is used a lot is done at...

Make sure you have epel Yum repo installed, if you don't: $ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm Please note that the above instructions are for a 64-bit architecture, on a 32-bit architecture: $ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm Make sure you have working version of JDK 6 (including the compiler), if not install it by running: $...

This tutorial assumes that you are working with the local account on CentOS 5.x and sudo into root as necessary. Configuring Yum Yum is a popular package manager for CentOS and RedHat Linux distributions. Unfortunately, standard Yum repositories carry significantly outdated packages. Fortunately, there are third-party Yum repositories with more updated LAMP packages which we...

If you ever need to create a Drupal core patch, you may need to check-out main branch of the appropriate version. CVS URLs for those are not easy to find, so here they are: Drupal 5:\ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal -z6 checkout -d drupal-5 -r DRUPAL-5 drupal Drupal 6:\ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal -z6 checkout -d drupal-6 -r DRUPAL-6...

The best way to install MongoDB on yum-enabled Linux distributions (CentOS or Fedora) is through yum package manager. MongoDB.org provides repositories (depending on your OS and CPU architecture) that you should add to your list of yum repos:\ http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/CentOS+and+Fedora+Packages Once you have the repository properly installed under /etc/yum.repos.d you can install the latest stable mongoDB...

In httpd.conf:\ LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 111.222.333.444 ExtendedStatus On where 111.222.333.444 is the IP of your server.

Got an error today I have never seen before (shocker) while trying to set up something on Debian Lenny. Took a while to find the culprit, but when I did it was so annoying, decided to share it here in case it saves headache to somebody else. So, I was just trying to run a...

If you generated your ssh key pair, did everything per instructions and still can't log-in using the keys, you may be a victim of the most common ssh key problem: incorrect permissions. Permissions both on the server and the client machine (if your client is Linux/Unix or Mac OS-X) must be set properly, which is:...

Yum is a great update manager for RedHat/CentOS Linux. Unfortunately, default repos are typically way behind the stable releases of the packages contained in them. If you need to install PHP, MySQL, Python or other major package, you will find that the versions in default repos are old to the extent of being useless. This...

This was not easy to track down in the documentation, but for anybody that may need it, here's the XML list of locales supported by Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/translations/FacebookLocales.xml

If you want to use the latest version of RubyGems on CentOS 5.x you need a later version of Ruby than what you can get from usual sources (CentOS, CentOS-Test or RPMForge Yum repos). I still have not found a yum repo that allows to install 1.9.x branch of Ruby (for installation instructions by compiling...

Unfortunately, CentOS 5.5 comes with a very old version of Ruby: 1.8.5. Even the latest rubygems require at least 1.8.6 to install. To make things more dire, centos-test and rpmforge yum repos do not carry a more up-to-date Ruby version. If you are fine upgrading to just 1.8.6, and want to use Yum, see my...