Come across a post at the railsforum which showed a nice looking ruby on rails editor for Windows. e-texteditor uses the well known textmate bundles so you can start using the range of bundle already contributed by the rails community on textmate.e-texteditor costs just $34.95 and although I haven’t used it yet it doesn’t seem pretty neat plus there is a 30 day trial. Time to download the evaluation version. Check out the screencast at www.e-texteditor.com
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This is one of the most common questions I hear from clients involved in paid search. There are a few reasons as to why the ads don’t show up but if your keywords are in your campaign and everthing it setup properly, then it could just be a matter of coverage.
Sometimes you might find that the ads don’t display usually because your budget isn’t high enough to get full search coverage.
For example
Scenario
Your ads are clicked a number of times from 6am – 12 midday and half of your budget is now used up so you only have $10 left of your daily budget. Your campaign still needs to run for 12 more hours so your ads will display intermittently throughout the rest of the day to give you the greatest coverage for the remainder of your scheduled ad time.
I’m assuming that Google does this so that you get an even level of enquiries throughout the day instead of lots of enquires all at once plus to minimise the same people looking for services from clicking your ads multiple times.
As part of a new rails site I’m working on, I found that I needed to install Rmagic to provide image manipulation in my app. So what I found was that it was going to as easy as installing the rmagick gem.
So I fired up my terminal and typed
sudo gem install rmagick
Whoops!!! Error time!
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
configure: error: Can't install RMagick. Can't find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program.
ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.7 for inspection.
So off I went to find a solution to this problem and kill a couple of hours of free time.
I found an post by Paul Hepworth on installing Rmagick on OSX but I didn’t have macports installed so off I went again to find an alternative solution.
Rmagick at ruby-forge happened to have installation instructions but I had another problem. I also needed to have X11 installed which I didn’t so I had to digg up my OSX installation disk and follow some instructions on installing X11 on mac on this post by trae mccombs.
Back to the rmagick instructions on ruby-forge you’ll find a ruby script that you can run now that you have X11 installed and it’ll do the whole install for you. Then all that’s left to do is
sudo gem install rmagick
Code on!!!
There are always little quirky things that you find along the way in getting things up and running on any system for development or production. One of my development boxes is a Linux 64bit Centos 5 distrobution that I haven’t had much of a chance to play with.
Well today I needed to setup apache 2.2 which I had already installed however when I tried to start apache with httpd start, all I would get is an error related to some error of no such file or directory for some modules that required loading in the http.conf file.
Well after sometime Googling for answers, I found out that in the /etc/ httpd/conf directory there is a file httpd.conf.bak that works right out of the box. Just cp this to httpd.conf and then run /etc/init.d/httpd start and you should find your web server is now up and running.
Check it by opening a browser and going to http://localhost
Whilst I was working on deploying my own rails app I needed some info on capistrano and found this great rails blog by Jordan McKible. Jordan has posted about heaps of stuff in rails and provides some code examples too.
Jordan has also created a rails installation guide for mac os x.
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