Dreamhost and Rails 2.0.2 January 8th, 2008
Well, it seems that my work and hosting provider updated Rails to 2.0.2. This seems to have caught many people off guard, including me. Since my site generates static files of everything once it’s viewed I wasn’t really impacted greatly. However I did want to make my site work again. So after a little digging around I found that since I didn’t freeze my rails to their current working version, I was still able to freeze an older copy.
rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_1-2-6
That snippet froze my rails to 1.2.6 which is what I had initially installed it on. It’s now working perfect, and I shouldn’t have any future problems with upgrades since my rails is now frozen.
Working for Dreamhost December 6th, 2007
As most of you know I recently was laid off of work. I took a small vacation with my dad during this time. We went to Oregon and were gone for a week. We had a lot of fun and did some really cool things. Well, trying to find work when I got back wasn’t too easy. The economy right now is very bad, especially for Linux Admins. After six months I finally got a call back from Dreamhost about an application I submitted some 3-4 months prior.
The interview went well and shortly after, I was hired. I must say, there is a lot more automation than I’m used to. Not that it’s bad, it’s actually really cool once you get used to how things are supposed to work. I’m kinda bummed I’m doing Tech Support again, but I’m also kinda happy that I am. There is a lot less responsibility and I don’t have to spent hours in a Data Center. Their setup hardware wise is pretty much what I’m used to from my last job. I suppose that’s the way to go when you start talking serious hosting.