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WestHost gets Rails

Friday, April 14th, 2006

I received an email announcement yesterday that WestHost (my host of choice) is going to be offering Ruby on Rails for install through its Site Manager. I guess it means that, sometime this month, my tutorial on the subject will no longer needed. Still, I’m glad it will be a bit easier to set up Rails on WestHost now.

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Oracle opens up

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

In hopes of stemming the massive explosion of open source database use, Oracle is preparing an “express” version of it’s Oracle Database 10g line: Oracle Database XE. Like many things on the web right now, it’s currently in beta, with a full release planned for late this year.

Courting the open source set is an interesting move for Oracle. PHP developers are the obvious target right now, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of the focus shifted to Rails developers in the near future.

Here’s a breakdown of some of the features/limitations:

  • available for Windows or Linux
  • stores up to 4GB of data
  • will only use one processor (crippled to keep their Enterprise clients no doubt)
  • will only use up to 1GB of RAM (ditto)
  • upgradeable to other Oracle Database 10g editions (of course)

I haven’t downloaded it to play yet, but there seems to be some fairly detailed instructions on both install and integration on the PHP end.

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New tutorial: Westhost on Rails

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

I have been hosting on WestHost for a little over four years now with no major complaints and I also host the majority of my clients there. They offer a lot of options for very little money and are always adding new features to the accounts. Unfortunately, Ruby on Rails is not one of them… yet.

As I have begun working a bit more with Rails, I have been looking to get it installed on my server (as well as some of my clients’). One of the major half-truths of Rails evangelism is the ease of install, especially with a host running Apache 1.3. After doing a few rather painful installs myself for some new projects, I finally decided to document the process of installing Ruby on Rails at WestHost for my own knowledge and to help any others who may be trying to do the same. Hopefully, WestHost will soon start to offer Rails installs as part of their hosting packages, but, until then, I offer up this humble tutorial.

Update 2006-04-14: WestHost has announced that Rails will be available for install via the Site Manager some time this month, making my tutorial unnecessary.

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