Tracks 1.02
Just a ‘heads up’ for anyone here who is following Tracks development; I’ve released Tracks 1.02.
Since I released version 1.01 in January, it has been dowloaded 1,111 times (neat number!), and the previous version was downloaded 189 times. Of course, only a tiny minority of those people will be actually using Tracks, but I’m still chuffed—-and amazed—-that it is continuing to gather so much interest.
Lighttpd, Rails and Tracks
[Posted to both here and on Tracks]
Jason, of TextDrive fame, has been singing the praises of lighttpd recently. In my experience, when Jason sings about something techie, it’s worth listening.
A week or so ago, the Apache installation I use to test Tracks locally abruptly stopped working. I’m pretty sure that I just messed something up in my httpd.conf, but my motivation to go through it, find the problem and fix it was seriously lacking. So given all the great press that lighttpd has been getting, I thought I’d have a go at installing it on my machine last night.
It wasn’t a very difficult process, but I ended up having to try to compile it a couple of times. The first time, I neglected to notice the part of the instructions here that said you needed pcre installed. Then I came up against a maddening error during make that I couldn’t fix until I came upon this excellent tutorial by Johan on installing on OS X. He found the same error as me, but had made a patch to fix the problem. Bingoâeverything ran smoothly from then on.
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