Month: August 2008

Firefox Flash Plugin Being Overwritten In Ubuntu

Posted by on August 27, 2008

In order to get debugging working with Adobe Flex Builder for Linux Alpha, I had to install the debugger version of the Flash 9 firefox plug-in.

I ran into a strange issue where after installing the Flash 9 debugger plug-in, the next instance of Firefox opened would use this correct flash version, but any other instances of firefox I opened after that would revert back to the regular version of Flash 9.

A quick post to the Ubuntu Forums revealed that running sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree fixes this without a hitch.

Simply Rails 2 Mistake: Unable to open database file

Posted by on August 27, 2008

In Chapter 4 of Sitepoint’s Simply Rails 2, you are told to run the command

sqlite3 db/development.sqlite3

then execute the sql query

CREATE TABLE `stories` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(255) default NULL,
`link` varchar(255) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);

Unfortunately, following these directions you get the error: Unable to open database "db/development.sqlite3": unable to open database file.

After searching a sitepoint post I found that you have to run rake db:migrate first in the command line from the shovell directory project first, and then run this SQL query instead:

CREATE TABLE `stories` (
`id` int(11) autoincrement NOT NULL,
`name` varchar(255) default NULL,
`link` varchar(255) default NULL,
`created_at` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`updated_at` datetime DEFAULT NULL
,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);