So with some help from Boris, I now have SlashLinks running on my own site.
Thank you to Ben for building this tool and thank you to Boris for help in installation.
So with some help from Boris, I now have SlashLinks running on my own site.
Thank you to Ben for building this tool and thank you to Boris for help in installation.
Awesome! Glad to see that you got it installed. I'll add you to the list of sites using SlashLinks.
Sadly, it seems to die quite frequently. I don't know a thing about RoR so I can't really debug it either. :(
Hey Boris (and Gen). I've seen this problem (as have other Rails users working with Apache -- especially on shared hosts) and I recognize it as an issue with some host configurations. I've noticed that on our (non-shared) servers we have no problems with this, but on shared hosts like Dreamhost, you can sometimes have the occasional 500 error where Rails fails to start. It might be a resource usage spike that the host is throttling, but I'm just guessing here.
Another suggestion is to try running SlashLinks on MySQL instead of SQLite (which is default). There's some configuration issues with SQLite that your host might have gotten wrong (mine did -- though they quickly fixed it). The schema for both SQLite and MySQL are in slashlinks/db
I know this is a fair amount of caveats, but Rails is still a new environment and not perfectly implemented across all servers. Please email me if you have any questions. I'd be glad to help.
Oh yah, and check slashlinks/logs/production.log for error reporting from Rails/Slashlinks. It might give you some clue as to what is going on. But I've been clicking through Gen's links this morning and wasn't having any trouble.
Good Luck!
Thanks Ben! I'll try to look into this soonish... ;)
I've just been staying at home waiting for something to happen. Whatever. Not much on my mind lately. I guess it doesn't bother me.