Failing to bundle install tiny_tds on Mac OS X 10.8 with Homebrew FreeTds

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MY QUESTION
What are some surefire steps I can take to 100% get this working? I would need real instructions, not one liner answers or vague conceptual desc

Answer 1

I don't know much about Ruby. Just dabbled a bit. You can always install vertx directly than I think you have more control with directory location and it makes it easier to upgrade. I wrote up a guide for Ops team for production (a work in progress really). It might help you. It might not.

I wrote a little install guide. I plan on adding some tweaks to it on how to configure TCP/IP stack and Vertx to scale (ephemeral port settings, file descriptor limits, load testing, tuning recycle buffers, etc.)

http://rick-hightower.blogspot.com/2013/11/installing-vertx-on-ubuntu-13.html

Installing Vertx on Ubuntu 13

Environment details

Instance type: EC2 hi1.4xlarge

• OS: Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit) Java VM:

• java version "1.7.0_25" (IcedTea 2.3.12) (build 23.7-b01)

• vertx: 2.1M1 (built 2013-10-29 11:11:22)

Installing Software

Java 7 JDK:

 $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Vertx:

Download Vertx

$ wget http://dl.bintray.com/vertx/downloads/vert.x-2.1M1.tar.gz
$ tar -zxf vert.x-2.1M1.tar.gz 
$ ls
vert.x-2.1M1  vert.x-2.1M1.tar.gz

Move into standard Unix structure:

$ sudo mv vert.x-2.1M1 /usr/local/share/
$ ls /usr/local/share/
  ...  vert.x-2.1M1  xml

Create symbolic link to /usr/local/share/vertx so upgrading is easier.

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/vert.x-2.1M1/ /usr/local/share/vertx
$ ls /usr/local/share/vertx
api-docs  bin  client  conf  lib

Add vertx symbolic link to your /usr/bin/ directory.

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/vertx/bin/vertx /usr/bin/vertx

Install a real damn editor:

$ sudo apt-get install emacs

Create test script to test vertx is installed properly:

var vertx = require('vertx');
vertx.createHttpServer().requestHandler(function(r) {
r.response.end("test 1\n");}).listen(8080);

Now run vertx against test script:

$ vertx run test.js &
[1] 11493
$ Succeeded in deploying verticle 

Now test that the install all worked:

$ curl 127.0.0.1:8080
test 1

If you get "test 1", this means vertx is install and able to server verticles.

Later I plan on adding init.d scripts to start vertx and perhaps a process that wakes up and makes sure everything is running every minute or so. I also plan on fronting a few vertx instances with NGINX reverse proxy so each box can handle close to 1,000,000 requests and have a bit more DOS protection. Anyway... a work in progress...