Say for instance you just applied a software update to your Mac OS X Server and rebooted.

Suddenly a Rails app that was running fine spits out an error when ActionPack does a redirect_to. In the Rails production.log:

SystemStackError (stack level too deep)

Well my friend, before you set off to debugging the Ruby install on your OS X machine, try clearing the Rails sessions. At the command line:

rake tmp:sessions:clear RAILS_ENV=production

Everyone must login again, but alas the problem is solved! [for me]

Is it because we're using Apple's built-in Apache 1.3 web server with source-compiled FastCGI support? Hmmm.

Do you get header not found errors when installing a Ruby Gem? (In my case, it's the FastCGI bindings.)

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After months of weekend-afternoon cafe work & late-night development sessions, I'm pleased to present a new web site created for sword/knife designer, bladesmith & goldsmith Jot Singh Khalsa of Millis, Massachusetts:

Visit this new site which features almost 150 fine handcrafted knives & swords created by Jot Singh over the past three decades.

I constructed the site in Ruby on Rails, that new-skool web development framework that lets web developers gracefully build high-quality, sustainable applications.

The site is hosted at TextDrive using lighttpd/FastCGI/Ruby/MySQL.