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My life is exciting enough that I could spend Friday evening working on my resurrected site.

I’d intended to document the experience well enough that I could update the various wikis on Typo+Dreamhost, but it got so late that my brain was too fried to do anything but randomly edit previous commands in the hope that something would work. I love to tinker around at night, but my brain stalls out a lot earlier than it used to.

The main sticking points I ran into were:

• The SVN checkout of the Rails1.1 typ version took about two bowls of cereal to complete
• The rake migration calls do nothing—I never timed them but after about 5 minutes I start hitting Ctlr-C. I didn’t dig into the strace of rake too deeply, but just set up the databases from within the mysql client with ‘source db/schema.mysql.sql’
• I was getting mysql server not found errors—because I had a TAB character after my hostname in my database.yml file. Why are computers so damn literal?
• I was getting 500 server errors, so I applied the RailsFCGIHandler tweak from Alex Young’s Blog

Of these, only the rake problems merit documenting on a Wiki—and I’ve done so at Typo Trac Wiki