A Path Less Taken

Although I’m sure it should be trivial to accomplish, I was having trouble getting the lighttpd mod_rewrite rules that I created working for Habari. I had already enabled the mod_rewrite server module, but I was struggling to get the syntax right. After much trial and error and some helpful web references I found the solution. I share it here in the hopes that you don’t struggle as I did.

Yes, I wanted to do it manually. I wanted to make sure that the parts and pieces were where I wanted them to be. Really, I wanted to make sure that I could replicate the setup on my Flash Drive development environment. I took Sebastian Bergmann’s directions, with a minor modification, and got it to work. Here is what I did.

Recently I followed some blog posts to an interesting link. It was a video of Robert Martin giving the keynote address to the RailsConf 09. The conference is a gathering of Ruby developers and is specifically targeted at (or hosted by) the Ruby on Rails community. This year’s keynote speech was entitled “What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too.”