Bash

In this new series of posts I’m calling “Pay it Forward”, I am attempting to publish notes that I keep on performing common but involved tasks in the hopes that they will help other people, as well as be a resource for myself the next time I need to do it. In this installment, I will be guiding the reader through the installation and setup of a Linux server with a configurable version of Ruby, and recent versions of MySQL. My current server environment is RedHat-based (Fedora) so the commands below that interact with the package manager use yum. Look for updates that include apt instructions as I have recently started diving into Debian with the Raspberry Pi. ...

I recently performed an upgrade on my development PostgreSQL server and found the information harder to get together than the actual process. There were a number of steps that were not immediately obvious to me from a MySQL background. The following is a quick overview from my notes, which I will expand and attempt to keep up to date as caveats and changes are discovered from future updates. My current development environment is Mac OS X Mountain Lion using the fantastic Homebrew as my package manager. ...