Recent Posts by Manuel

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / any chance to get git on rubystack?

Hi acamargo,

You’re right! git is making a lot of noise in the Rails community. We are going to release an updated version of RubyStack soon and git is an very important candidate for being added.

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / rails: command not found

Hi again,

There has been an error.
Error running /usr/local/bin/rubystack-1.1-0/mysql/scripts/myscript.sh /usr/local/bin/rubystack-1.1-0/mysql dhabi2 : useradd: user mysql exists
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ’/usr/local/bin/rubystack-1.1-0/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ’/usr/local/bin/rubystack-1.1-0/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ’/usr/local/bin/rubystack-1.1-0/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)
The application will exit now

This usually means that MySQL couldn’t start for some reason. Did you get that error during the installation? If so, can you send us to manuel {at} bitnami.org a copy of the installation log? It should be located at /tmp/bitrock_*.log, but remember that the content of /tmp is deleted each time you boot your computer.

cheers

Manuel

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / rails: command not found

Hi alinuxBN,

In order to use any RubyStack program you should load its environment variables. It is done running the script “rubyconsole”, located on the RubyStack’s install directory.

cd /home/alan/ruby
./rubyconsole

Let us know if it didn’t work for you.

cheers

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / project got created on my d:\drive, cannot start server - cannot connect to sample application

Hi Clauder,

Due some Windows’ permission conflicts, the sample Rails project is created inside your personal directory. It doesn’t matter if you install RubyStack on C:, if your Windows’ personal dir is on D:, the Rails project will be created on D:.

However, there is no reason for the application for not to start correctly. Can you post the error message you get when you try to run “script/server”?

On the other hand, you can create another Rails project where you want. Just chdir to that location and run “rails my-app-name”, a new application will be created there. Just copy the config/database.yml file from the sample project to the new one so it can use the RubyStack-created databases.

hope this clarify your issue

cheers

Topic: Stacks suggestions / PHPMotion

Hi jakim,

Your suggestion is welcome. Here is the link to the project: http://bitnami.org/product/phpmotion.

cheers

Topic: General / Install/Run Problem on Windows XP

Hi Hugh,

Thanks for letting us know. We will take a look at the issue and let you know when the problem is solved.

Cheers

Topic: Stacks suggestions / New Suggestions

Hi Ripley,

thanks for the suggestion. I agree with you and I’m glad to hear somebody asking for it. If you want you can vote for Gallery 2 here: http://bitnami.org/product/gallery2

cheers

Topic: Tracks / BitNami Tracks Stack: BitRock Installbuilder for Windows problem

Hi Brian,

Thank you for reporting the problem. In order to solve it, can you provide us more information about it? It would be perfect if you can mail us the installation log to manuel@bitnami.org, which is located at:

C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR-USER-NAME\Local Settings\Temp\bitrock_installer_*.log

What happens when you try to log in? What error message do you get?

kind regards

Topic: General / Uninstall Tracks on Vista Home Premium

Hi again sonny,

Maybe the “error 5” message you are getting is a Vista message telling you that you do not have enough permissions to remove services. Can you try to issue the same command from an console run as administrator. I think you can achieve the same result pressing ctrl+shit+enter instead of just enter inside the RUN dialog.

cheers

Topic: Tracks / Error Message - Apache

Hi again samirello,

Both Apache services cannot be run at the same time if both are listening at the same port. Try to stop all tracs* services and then launch just the new Tracks’ services. You can do that with the links inside the Start Menu. Can you tell me if that make Tracks work for you?

thanks

Manuel

Topic: Tracks / Error Message - Apache

Hi lstvan,

Can you help us to reproduce the problem?

• Did you get any error message during the installation process?
• Do you have your system configured to use a Proxy?
• What happen when you try to access http://127.0.0.1/ with your browser? (or http://127.0.0.1:port-number/ if you had to install Tracks on another port).

thanks in advance

Topic: General / Uninstall Tracks on Vista Home Premium

Hi sonny,

The reason you cannot is probably that you have BitNami Tracks services running. Those services are launched during the installation and won’t let you delete some files while running. You can try to uninstall them running the following in a command line window:

"c:\Program Files\BitNami Tracks Stack\serviceinstall.bat" REMOVE

assuming that you installed Tracks on that folder, of course. Let us know if doesn’t work for you.

About capturing the error, you can mail us the installation log to manuel@bitnami.org, it is usually named like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\your-user-name\Local Settings\Temp\bitrock_installer_*.log

Thanks for helping us to build a better project.

Topic: Stacks suggestions / New Suggestions

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the delay. We’ve added the following to our catalog:

http://bitnami.org/product/mindquarry
http://bitnami.org/product/oneorzero
http://bitnami.org/product/hylafax

People can vote for them now. We tend to give priority to the projects that have the highest votes.

Thanks for you suggestions!

Topic: Tracks / Adding Users

The just released version (1.5-1) fixes the bug.

Thanks for reporting it.

Topic: Tracks / Adding Users

Hi guhan.ramanan,

I seems that you found a bug on Tracks Stack 1.5-0. The default user created during the installation has no Admin privileges. We are working on releasing a fix ASAP. If you don’t want to wait or uninstall your existent Tracks Stack you can fix the problem running the following within a console:

"C:\Program Files\BitNami Tracks Stack\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "C:\Program Files\BitNami Tracks Stack\tracks\script\runner" -e production "u=User.new(:login=>'MyUser',:password=>'MyPass',:password_confirmation=>'MyPass');u.is_admin=true;u.save!;u.create_preference"

That will create an admin user called MyUser and password MyPass. Sorry for the inconvenience.

cheers,

Manuel

Topic: Tracks / Mac OS 10.5: Where's the double-clickable icon?

Hi Nunud!

Thanks for all the compliments. In order to run Tracks you should open a terminal and run the following:

cd /Applications/tracks-1.5RC1-0/
./ctlscript.sh start

We are constantly working on improving our stacks, if you have any suggestions just let us know.

cheers!

Topic: General / Running As Service - Tracks

Hi snafilter,

If you install a RubyStack service like that it won’t work because the Windows service will override the environment variables set by “user_ruby.bat”. I suggest you to try our ready-made Tracks stack http://bitnami.org/stack/tracks. Or you can try to fix the problem yourself adding to the top of your tracks “config/environment.rb” file something similar to the following:

You should also ensure that MySQL service is running before launching Mogrel service. Hope this helps .

Manuel

Topic: General / Problem installing

Hi dfriestedt,

We think we’ve found the cause of the problem, the next release will fix it. Meanwhile you can try to install this release candidate if you want: http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/mediawiki/bitnami-mediawiki-1.11.0-10-linux-installer-fedora-fix.bin Let us know it works for you.

regards Manuel

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / new user RubyStack

Hi,

If you launched your app with ruby script/server -p 3001 it should be accessible through http://localhost:3001/.

regards

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / [linux] [jrubystack] error when stopping

Hi rob99,

The path /opt/mypath/apache-tomcat-5.5.23 doesn’t correspond with a typical BitNami path for Tomcat. Did you manually set the CATALINA_HOME path or added/modified something in the stack?

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / [linux] [jrubystack] error when stopping

Hi rob99,

Did you installed the stack as root? Are you running the stack as root or normal user?

BitNami stacks installed as root should be started as root too. If you want to have your stack installed under ”/opt/mypath” and run it as normal user you can create that path manually as root and them give the normal user write permissions to it. If this is not your case let us know what is it.

regards

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / ri not working?

Hi again,

Can you run the following commands just before trying to run ri Hash and send us the output?

export
gem list

Thanks rob99

Topic: Stacks suggestions / Chipmark Bookmark

Hi,

Just a quick note to let you now that Chipmark is now in our the catalog: http://bitnami.org/product/chipmark

cheers

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / ri not working?

Hi rob99,

We’ve trying to reproduce your problem without success. But you can try to install the hpricot gem to see if it fixes it.

gem install hpricot

Remember that gem and ri commands should be run inside a rubyconsole.

Topic: Stacks suggestions / Claros inTouch 2.2

Hi torusturtle,

Claros inTouch is in our catalog now: http://bitnami.org/product/claros_intouch. People can now vote for it. Thanks for the suggestion!

Topic: Stacks suggestions / ISPConfig

Thanks for the suggestion. It seems a very interesting tool. We’ve just added ISPconfig to the catalog. People can vote for it now: http://bitnami.org/product/ispconfig

Topic: General / FTP download request

Thanks for the suggestion choppala, we were not aware of that limitation was present on some networks.

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / Why not include phpmyadmin in production version?

Hi MattZ,

Right now, RubyStack does not ships phpMyAdmin in production version to keep it as secured as possible. As long as several RubyStacks can be installed in your system without creating any conflict, you can simply install one RubyStack to develop your application and have the other one for production purposes.

The other choice is to install only one RubyStack in development mode to get phpMyAdmin and then configure Apache and a Mogrel cluster get the production environment too. It is not as complicated as it sounds, but requires some skills:

• To configure Apache you must create the file /home/your-name/rubystack-1.1-0/apache/conf/httpd.conf with the following content. Keep in mind that some parts of this file, like paths and the number of mongrel cluster, will need to be modified to fit your installation.

<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerAdmin info@example.com
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
ErrorLog "/home/your-name/rubystack-1.1-0/apache2/logs/rubystack_apache_error_log"
CustomLog "/home/your-name/rubystack-1.1-0/apache2/logs/rubystack_apache_access_log" combined
<DirectoryMatch "^/.*/\.svn/">
ErrorDocument 403 /404.html
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</DirectoryMatch>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect all non-static requests to cluster
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://rubystackcluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
</VirtualHost>
<Proxy balancer://rubystackcluster>
BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3001
BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3002
BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3003
BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3004
</Proxy>

• To create the Mongrel cluster you can read the directions to create a Mongrel cluster in the Quick Start Guide, page 12.

good luck.

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / Rubyconsole returns bash prompt

Hi CB,

That’s the purpose of the rubyconsole script. It gives you a bash shell with all the corresponding environment variables loaded. I know, the name is a bit confusing.

If you wanted to get a Rails console for your Rails application, you must run the rubyconsole and then call script/console from your’s project directory. Assuming you left the default name for the sample application it should look like this:

cynthia-butlers-computer:~ Cindy$ /Applications/rubystack-1.1-0/rubyconsole
bash-2.05b$ cd /Applications/rubystack-1.1-0/projects/rubystack
bash-2.05b$ script/console
Loading development environment.
>>

regards

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / HowTo: Windows + RubyStack + Aptana RadRails + Ruby Debug

Thanks Silas! Good how-to. We owe you a bier :)