Compiling memcache for MAMP on Snow Leopard

I recently had to compile memcache.so for my MAMP installation to get a project’s code up-and-running on my machine. I had some trouble following the guides that I found from start to finish — one detail or another was always missing or different for me.

I’m just going to put this right here and hopefully it will help others with the same problem. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I’m happy to help work out the kinks with anyone having trouble — just leave a comment below. Read the rest of this entry »

How to: Redmine and Gitosis with Nginx, Passenger, and Ubuntu [Part 3]

This Part 3 of a multi-part guide — view part two here

This is the home stretch, and it certainly took long enough to get here.

In this part of the guide, we’ll be installing the redmine-gitosis plugin, setting up all of the related permissions and creating an example project to get you started.

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How to: Redmine and Gitosis with Nginx, Passenger, and Ubuntu [Part 2]

This Part 2 of a multi-part guide — view part one here

I hope you took a 30 second break, ’cause these next parts are a bit more involved.

In this part of the guide, I’ll be detailing/combining/reworking a lot of stuff that you can find on Greg Thornton’s Github Clone with Redmine post and at Redmine’s installation wiki.

Differences from Greg’s guide:

• We won’t be using Bitnami. Instead, we’ll install the latest (as of 7/8/10) version of Redmine.
• We’ll be using a different version of redmine-gitosis (in the next part of the guide)

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How to: Redmine and Gitosis with Nginx, Passenger, and Ubuntu [Part 1]

Huge credit to:

• Greg Thornton — GitHub Clone with Redmine
• Antonio Cangiano — Setup Ruby Enterprise Edition, nginx and Passenger (aka mod_rails) on Ubuntu

I’ve been thinking about and researching a wide variety of issue tracking + version control software over the past few weeks. While I love services like Lighthouse and Github, I’m cheap — I’d rather not pay for what I know I can achieve myself.

So, I started working with Redmine — a project management web app written using Ruby on Rails — to put together an inexpensive and combined version control and project tracking system.

In this guide, we’ll be using:

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ruby Enterprise Edition
• Redmine
• Redmine-Gitosis (plugin for Redmine)
• Ngninx
• Passenger

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