Matthew Hutchinson

While it may be considered good news that Dreamhost has upgraded their Rails distribution to 1.1 – it is causing a large number of problems with existing rails apps. There are reports of this happening across the web (Dreamhost, Textdrive etc.) as hosting providers install the new framework.

My blog here was down for the majority of today until I came across a fix for running your app under a frozen 1.0 rails in your vendor/ folder.

On a plus note Rails 1.1 looks promising and coupled with a new release of RadRails it should be a joy to work with.

Isnt this better ? Ive had my fun configuring Typo and playing around with its template engine. Its been a great introduction to Ruby; Unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that Typo – (although an excellent blogging application) – doesnt run with stability (or speed) on Dreamhost

Its fine locally on my machine and even throttling it through my debian box. But the Apache FCGI performance on here is lacking with Typo, perhaps because its a shared server – or the way Typo caches. Im not sure. If anyone else has experienced this or knows of ways to speed up Typo on Dreamhost – let me know. —edit.. ive stumbled upon this, which might help.

Also – since I didnt spend that long on my theme, I dont really mind ditching it for this one until I can dedicate some real time to it.