Caffeinated Wisdom

Some of my customers in my freelance jobs require me to create for them a an easy-to-maintain website with some dynamic content. Normally I would help them set up a CMS like Joomla or Drupal, but some of the customers have a cheap, shared, web hosted accounts which do not run those CMS at optimal speed. For those customers, I usually implement the following to give them a website running at fast speed: Most of their website is statically generated by a custom offline CMS that I created. The offline CMS is an easy to use rails app that runs on my computer and uses webgen to generate clean HTML and then uploads the generated HTML to the shared account. That way is easy for me or for my customers to make changes to the website. For storing data from the visitors and other small dynamic services, I use the free Google App Engine . By using Google App Engine, my customers have access to Google's vast resources without paying a penny. Furthermore, I know for sure that those custome...

If you get "The system cannot find the path specified" when trying to run jruby in Windows, you need to add JRUBY_HOME and JAVA_HOME to your environment variables. JRUBY_HOME and JAVA_HOME both need to point to the root folder of jruby and Java JDK, e.g.: C:\jruby-1.1.6\ and C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_11. You need to also add %JAVA_HOME%\bin and %JRUBY_HOME% \bin to your PATH variable. You can manage your environment variables by doing the following under Windows XP: Right click on My Computer Click Properties Click the Advance tab Click on Environment Variables