Archive for September, 2008

First weekend with CakePHP

Posted in php on Thursday, September 25th, 2008. Comments Off

I’ve spent the last year working with the Symfony framework (and I did a quick and fun incursion into CodeIgniter). I’m now attempting a switch to CakePHP for a new job.

After some hours of playing with it (ie. reading the docs and trying the blog tutorial), I mainly miss two things:

A clone of François Zaninotto taking care [...]

Ramaze with Passenger on Dreamhost

Posted in ruby on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008. Comments Off

It’s easy to get Ramaze running on Dreamhost, as they are using Passenger. Here’s how:

Enabling Passenger

First log in to your Dreamhost control panel and go to you domain, you have to activate the option

Ruby on Rails Passenger (mod_rails)?

Then the setting for

Specify your web directory:

should point to the public folder in the directory where your ramaze [...]