Sorry I haven’t been posting. Wedding planning and work still keep me very busy. To make up for it, here are a few new pictures that I recently took of “the kids”. Jasper acting as weird as ever and Daph finally getting some additional facetime and annoying her brother.
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Cathy and I are perusing the dollar store for cheap… umm… ‘expensively challenged’ things to use for our upcoming nuptials and in the soda aisle I saw this soda. Totally took me back to summers with the family. Going to Family Camp and stocking up on Ting soda.
I miss Ting.
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Update April 2, 2009: This post is REALLY old. Do yourself a favor and install Passenger. I have and it’s a life saver for my Rails sites. No more crashing mongrels, or mongrels that don’t want to restart. Just sites that know they need to spin up if they’re down.
Jeez this has been a confusing day. I’ve been trying to figure out why the mongrel clusters powering my websites weren’t starting after a reboot of my servers. I’m initializing the reboots so don’t worry that my servers are unstable. 
they’re not. They’re well-behaved children.
FreeBSD has the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory for shell scripts that will autostart services for you. Kinda like the “Startup” directory in windows. Great. So I found a shell script someone had written and sent in this email on the Mongrel-users mailing list. I copied that to the rc.d directory and placed the require mongrel_cluster_enable=”YES” line into /etc/rc.conf.
reboot.
Nothing. Apache was starting. Mysql was starting. WTF.
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