Over a year ago Anand Sreenivasan published a short Java class which purpose was to check for Internet connectivity on the computer of the person running it. It was meant to be used as a CLI app. I decided to make it a little bit more reusable.
Java Internet connection checker
August 24th, 2009RubyGems 1.3.1 for Ubuntu 8.10
February 6th, 2009Some time ago Rails 2.2 was released. Since than the framework requires rubygems 1.3.1 to run. Unfortunately Ubuntu 8.10 only has rubygems 1.2.0 in its repositories. A quick google search didn’t yield a good solution for this. Everyone is suggesting to install the vanilla rubygems-1.3.1.tgz, but I feel more comfortable having rubygems managed by Ubuntu’s package manager. So I created the package myself.
It’s now available from my PPA. To install it you need to add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/maciejb/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/maciejb/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
For further instructions please follow this link. My PPA’s address is: https://launchpad.net/~maciejb/+archive/ppa.
Update (2009/09/08): Brightbox currently has the most up-to-date Rubygems repository available: http://wiki.brightbox.co.uk/docs:brightboxaptrepository