Allow rails users to login via vsftpd
So you’ve installed Ruby on Rails with Postgres, and now you want to allow your users to login to your server via FTP. First we need to install our FTP server. (In the config window, I left the defaults) [text] freebsd-vm# cd /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd freebsd-vm# make install cd /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd && make config; […] ports included in […]
Installing Ruby on Rails in FreeBSD with Postgres
After setting up a minimal FreeBSD install, I want to get Ruby on Rails up and running. Let’s see what’s available in the ports tree. [text] freebsd-vm# make search key=gem | grep Path: | grep ruby Path: /usr/ports/audio/rubygem-mp3info Path: /usr/ports/benchmarks/rubygem-railsbench Path: /usr/ports/databases/ruby-dbd_pg Path: /usr/ports/databases/ruby-rdbc1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/rubygem-activerecord […] Path: /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gemfinder Path: /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gems Path: /usr/ports/devel/rubygem-activesupport […] Path: […]
Updating the ports tree in FreeBSD
After setting up a minimal FreeBSD install, I want to update the ports tree to the latest available. FreeBSD provides a program to do this. It’s called cvsup (cvs update). To find the program, I search the ports tree. [text] freebsd# cd /usr/ports freebsd# make search key=cvsup | grep Path: Path: /usr/ports/chinese/auto-tw-l10n Path: /usr/ports/lang/ezm3 Path: […]
Setting up a FreeBSD VM with Parallels under OS X Leopard
To read this post with screen shots, use one of the following links: HTML PDF PDF Zip My goal is to have a FreeBSD 7.0 based virtual machine running under Parallels on my OS X 10.5 Leopard iMac. Open Parallels and select File -> New As my server is just for local development, I didn’t […]