XRails enter testing phase

I’ve made 2 distribution of XRails (x86 and x86_64). XRails is a kind of Ruby on Rails distribution for Linux OS, similar with InstantRails (for Windows) and Locomotive (for MacOSX). This version maybe buggy, so I’d like to announce that I am glad to have it ready for testing. If you work at Linux OS, please test it. Currently, XRails include these software:

1. Ruby (1.8.6)
2. PostgreSQL (8.2.4)
3. MySQL (5.0.41)
4. Mongrel (1.0.1)
5. Lighttpd (1.4.15)
6. Fastcgi (2.4.0)
7. Rubygems (0.9.4)
8. Ruby on Rails (1.2.3)

It should works outside the box, but who knows? If you would like to test it, grab it at http://www.akakom.ac.id/page/show/3.

On the way to X-Rails

X-Rails is a distribution of Rails and any other components for Linux OS. Today I’ve finished build my brand new PC with LCD monitor 17 inch (woaaa ….) and start to fill it with Mandriva Linux (Cooker). I also finished the X-Rails distribution. Ever heard about InstantRails? This should be the same, but without IDE and FxRuby things.

Currently, it features latest Rails (1.2.3 and all of its dependencies), PostgreSQL, MySQL, lighttpd, mongrel, and fastcgi. Using this distribution, assumming you use Linux OS with typical desktop and complete libraries installation (like Mandriva, openSUSE, Fedora, etc), what you need to do just extract the distribution and then sourcing (it’s a bash command – source) the environment variables, and then you’re all set.

But, I am wondering, even though I will use it for my team here, is there anybody out there who needs it badly? If so, I will upload it at Rubyforge then

Jogja Ruby Hacker

As my posting at id-ruby didn’t get much attention from people (especially people live in Yogyakarta), so I assumed that no Ruby User Group around here, beside I can not find it also at Ruby meetup site. Ok, I will start it. As a beginning, I have created a FAQ for JRH in Bahasa Indonesia. Here it is:

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Jogja Ruby Hacker FAQ
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1. Apa itu Jogja Ruby Hacker (JRH)
JRH adalah suatu organisasi (informal) untuk mewadahi berbagai anggota
masyarakat (khususnya di Jogja) yang menggunakan Ruby atau ingin
menggunakan dan mempelajari serta berbagi bersama dalam pemrograman Ruby.
2. Apa kegiatannya?
Untuk saat ini baru pertemuan yang sifatnya presentasi dari dan untuk
anggota JRH.
3. Bagaimana cara menjadi anggota?
Datang saja ke pertemuan bulanan JRH.
4. Haruskan saya membayar?
Tidak ada iuran keanggotaan. Jika ada, biasanya hanyalah insidental
dan untuk keperluan pertemuan. Itupun jika memang mau ada konsumsi
dan lain-lain. Jika dan hanya jika ada yang mau mengurusi.
5. Saya tidak tahu apa-apa tentang Ruby, bisakah saya ikut?
Bisa. Bukankah lebih baik belajar dengan banyak teman?
Yang anda perlukan adalah kemauan belajar dan berbagi.
6. Saya ingin kegiatan JRH teratur dan isinya seperti kursus.
Lupakan saja. Tidak akan pernah seperti itu.
7. Tolong, saya tidak punya interpreter Ruby serta software-software
lainnya.
Makanya, ikut saja JRH. Di sana nanti kebutuhan software semoga
bisa diantisipasi.
8. Mengapa menggunakan istilah “hacker”? Apa hubungannya dengan
menjebol website atau server orang?
Tidak ada hubungannya. Absolutely no relationship. Yang anda
tanyakan itu sebenarnya istilah untuk cracker. Masyarakat terbiasa
menggunakan istilah “hacker” yang salah. Untuk informasi lengkap
silahkan bertanya pada Eric S. Raymond.

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And so, we have a lot of people who loves to {know|use} Ruby here at STMIK AKAKOM. I will give a little presentation for JRH for the first time. If you are living in or near Yogyakarta, please come and have fun with us!

Add news and pages title

… and it’s only a matter of 2 line addition in controller. Wow.

Today I will start developing PMB (Penerimaan Mahasiswa Baru or registration for new students) at the website.

STMIK AKAKOM website is up

Although I’ve finished it yesterday, we just setup the name server to www.akakom.ac.id this moring (thanks mas Nino). Have a look at STMIK AKAKOM website.

For you — Rails geek — you probably will say like “ugh ogh … that kind of website is easy to be developed using Rails”. Umm … you’re right. I am still impressed of how fast Rails can help me.

Upgrading PostgreSQL dan Rubygems

I’ve finished upgrade PostgreSQL to 8.2.4. I also reinstalled ruby-postgres -0.7.1 gems.


bpdp@akakom:~$ gem install postgres -- - --with-pgsql-dir=/opt/software/postgresql/
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed postgres-0.7.1
bpdp@akakom:~$


As fair as I experienced, I don’t have any bad experience with Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 1.2.3, and PostgreSQL 8.2.x, although the ruby-postgres driver explicitly mentioned Postgresql 7 – 8.1. The website will be published next week.