SysAdmins' Chronicles

Introduction

By the end of this post you will have Ruby fully installed on your Solaris Server/Workstation. These instructions are written for Solaris 10 11/06, they can be easily adopted for OpenSolaris. One thing to watch out for if you are using OpenSolaris is that SunStudio 12 breaks the Ruby compile. There are work arounds to this but I have not had enough time to fully troubleshoot and solve the issue.

Getting Ready

Make sure SunStudio 11 (Do NOT install SunStudio 12) is installed on your Solaris machine before you start.

Correction Sun Studio 12 works if this is being installed under Solaris 10 11/06 and SPARC hardware. I havent had a chance to test other hardware/OS options as of yet.

Introduction

Ruby on Rails is a agile web development framework written in Ruby. Ruby is a very easy to use and easy to learn language. The syntax is quite enjoyable to work with and it "just makes sense." I like to consider Ruby a no-intimidation programming language.

In this post I will go into the installation of the Ruby on Rails web application framework. Talk about best practices and creating your first rails application.

Introduction

Have you ever had a lab or group of computers that was getting to the point of being a huge pain? Repeating the same boring installation process over and over again? Never again will you need to do that with Solaris JumpStart Server.

Solaris 10 JumpStart allows a System Adminstrator to perform efficient and precise Solaris provisioning on new hardware. There are three elements that make up a JumpStart Server. I will be focusing on the setup of a complete solution for SPARC hardware. This is because this is the hardware that I was using when setting up the JumpStart server and clients. I will comment on differences between the SPARC setup and the x86/64 setup when the two hardware platforms would differ.

For instance, when this task would be applied to an x86 solution the major difference would be that rarp would not be used because x86 hardware supports DHCP built-in these days. So PXE boot would be implemented.

When registering a domain at GoDaddy and not using their DNS servers make sure during the checkout process you enter your own nameservers. This will speed up the propagation time tremendously. It should take just a few minutes for your domain to be propagated with the correct DNS servers after you finish checking out.