Author Archives: Carol

WordPress 3.5.1 multisite subdirectory problem

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Carol

I recently created a new wordpress 3.5.1 install with the intention of enabling multisite. I followed all the official instructions and everything seemed to be working until I got to actually creating a second site in the network with a … Continue reading →

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Enable SSL with Heroku for https access

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Carol

For rstat.us, we’ve been meaning to enable ssl/https for a long time. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve finally gotten around to it, and everything seems to be working now! What was the hold up? On heroku (where we started … Continue reading →

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Interesting Times

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Carol

So today I put in my 2 weeks’ notice at Careerimp– for a variety of reasons that I’m not going to go into publicly, I no longer think the position is the right thing for me at this point in … Continue reading →

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Updating gems in rvm’s global and default gemsets

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Carol

This is mostly for my own reference; I know I’ve looked this up before and it’s always hard to find, so at least now I’ll have one place to look. If you want to update gems that you have in … Continue reading →

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Sinatra:Base rackup: rubyeventmachine.bundle: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.7

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Carol

I was *just* saying yesterday that I haven’t run into any strange errors lately. I guess I forgot to knock on wood! Today I started a brand new sinatra app. I haven’t written my own sinatra app from scratch before, … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome AJAX POST request: net_error = -100 (CONNECTION_CLOSED)

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Carol

I haven’t totally figured this out yet. I’m probably doing something dumb. I have a rails application with an action that I’m hitting via an AJAX POST request. This action generates a PDF and saves it on the server, then … Continue reading →

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Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnhandledError (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Carol

Somewhere around the time that I got a Mac, upgraded Firefox, upgraded selenium-webdriver, upgraded Capybara and started running lots of acceptance tests in selenium, I started getting errors like this: Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnhandledError: Component returned failure code: 0×80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIDOMXPathEvaluator.createNSResolver] They don’t … Continue reading →

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In which I buy a Mac

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Carol

Yep, I did it. After much agonizing and wrestling with my identity, I bought a 13″ Macbook Air. It was mostly because I have started a new job at Careerimp (doing Rails dev for our web app Resunate.com) at which … Continue reading →

Posted in Meta, Ruby on OSX | 5 Comments

The system cannot find the path specified

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Carol

So recently I started getting many incidents of the error “The system cannot find the path specified” when running just about anything from the windows command line and sometimes from the Git Bash shell. It was really weird because everything … Continue reading →

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The json gem strikes again: heroku on Windows

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Carol

This json gem without windows binaries for Ruby 1.9.2 is the bane of my existence. I just started using heroku today with the heroku gem, and on every command I got the dreaded “msvcrt-ruby18.dll was not found” popup. As usual, … Continue reading →

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