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Install Ruby 1.9.3 on a shared hosting non root

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

I’ve got through a bit of a hurdle to get Ruby 1.9.3 installed on my shared host. My host is PlanetHoster, but this walkthrough should work with any host giving you a decent development suite (gcc, ld, make…), like 1and1, … Continue reading →

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Packaging Ruby C extensions in nice gems

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Muriel Salvan 5 Comments

In the first part of this series on Ruby and C, we’ve seen how easy it is to write a C extension and use it in Ruby environment. However, in real world problems, a Ruby library will have several C … Continue reading →

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Howto install Redmine on Heroku

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Muriel Salvan 2 Comments

A little howto to get Redmine running on Heroku: Install Redmine locally. Follow instructions given on the Redmine Install page. I used development mode only in this step. Setup git in the repository with git init Edit the .gitignore file, … Continue reading →

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How to install reCaptcha on your MediaWiki

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

Lately I just ran into heavy spamming among all my MediaWiki’s wikis. It first began with plain anonymous spamming (I wanted to leave anonymous editing available), then I forced account creation, then spammers were automating new account registrations before updating … Continue reading →

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