I wrote this to pull from QuotationsPage.com and post the quote of the day to twitter in Python. Download it, edit the username/password line and set it up in cron to run once a day.

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View source: http://bluescripts.net/quote-of-the-day-tweeter/

After getting my new mac book pro I had an extra laptop sitting around… so why not turn it into a little low power development box My goal is to get LigHTTPD, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, and Python to work together with lighty.

Step 1: Install Lighty

Here is a list of errors / fixes encountered while doing this from a bare-bones net install. Run ./configure after each one to see what else is broken / needs to be installed.

Copy the lighttpd conf to somewhere easy to find:

Now onto PHP:

That’s done easily enough. Verify it’s installed:

Verify python’s installed:

(hit ctrl+d to exit the python interpreter)

Install MySQL:

( I just install them all as this is a dev server anyways )

Everything went okay so now onto Ruby

Everything went okay, and all the software is installed. Now it’s time to configure them.

First lets get PHP working with Lighty.

hit CTRL+V to page down real quick…. at the bottom of the file add:

Save the file and exit.

First:

It should be in /usr/bin/php-cgi

Second:

Now lets open lighttpd.conf

Un-comment the fastcgi, rewrite, and redirect lines.

Lets change the document root to be /home/dev/

Lets also make sure we change the user of Lighty:

Now scroll down and add this to the bottom:

Exit and save the file.

Lets try starting Lighty:

Start lighty again and you’re all set!

Now lets see if PHP worked…. browse to your dev server’s ip and you should see the php info page, and all is well.

Now lets get Ruby working
Now lets get Ruby-FCGI

This fails so lets check for errors:

Fix:

Now lets try ruby again!

Done .

Now install gem: wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/45905/rubygems-1.3.1.tgz

Gunzip, tar -xvf it and then compile it:

run

That should install Gem for you.

Next you need to install Rails, which can be done very easily now

When initially doing this I ran into an issue of Rails complaining (specifically when running the ruby script/server command) about not being able to find the specific database information.

First: start a project

That creates your first demo project.

Now lets make a controller:

Start the development server:

Browse to http://yourserverip:3000/hello
Error:
MissingSourceFile in HelloController#index

no such file to load — sqlite3

RAILS_ROOT: /home/ruby/demo

To fix:

Hit Ctrl+C to stop the web daemon, then:

Change it to read something like:

Now to install Ruby MySQL:

Now try running the server again

and browse to http://yourserverip:3000/hello and you should get another error:
Unknown action

No action responded to index. Actions:

To fix, first exit the web server (Ctrl+C), then:

Save and exit, and then:

Browse to http://yourserverip:3000/hello

And voila, Rails! You should see: “Hello World!”

I did however find a simpler way to run this using Mongrel:

Wait a few for it to install and then just change to your demo directory:

Now to setup a Python (via Django)

Browsing to http://yourserverip:8000/ you should see:

It worked!
Congratulations on your first Django-powered page.

You’re now all set up with one server that can serve PHP, Python, and Ruby pages.

This is by no means a programming tutorial, I was simply showing how to get the basics set up for people to start quickly learning PHP, Python (web programming), and Ruby on Rails.

Please leave a comment if you spot a bug / error somewhere!

On campus they use BlueSocket as a WIFI manager…. I got tired of waiting for the browser to load their nasty redirect page to login so I wrote a simple python script to automatically log me in, just execute and your good! (only tested on MAC)