Blog post after a long time but this one deserves it because this can save someone a day or few minutes/hours of their time for sure.
Issue: When you run JUnit report generation using Ant target you will run into java.lang.StackOverflowError.
Where: Happens only on Windows machine (at least I have seen it). Works fine on linux/mac os x.
Why: When XSLT engine runs thru all the properties supplied to it while doing the actual test case to report translation, it runs into java.class.path variable specified and if your class path has too many path elements , it goes into infinite death loop.
How to fix: A Quick hack or fix (whatever you want to call it as); is to tell XSLT engine ignore the java.class.path while evaluating properties. To do that you will have to explicitly specify where to pick up the stylesheet from. Luckily junitreport lets us specify the external xsl folder location using styledir attribute in
<report ...
tag. So this is what you need to do.
get a copy of junit-noframes.xsl (if you are using with frames get a copy of that) from the internet. or you should be able to get this from the latest version of Apache Ant and it should be located in /etc folder. Now copy this xsl fi
This blog post is long due. Once again its a quick tip which can save lot of developers time in setting up rails with phusion passenger when they run into permission denied error.
After installing Passenger Phusion on a existing Apache HTTP web server when I started the Apache server and try to launch the app in browser I was getting following error.
[client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied, referer: http://localhost/
[client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
After fixing obvious issues around permission like below, still no luck.
chmod on rails directory , so that Apache/Phusion would have all the permission to access the rails directory
Adjusting VirtualHost directory permission in Apache config (httpd.conf) file to allow all which would look something like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot <rails app directory>
<Directory <rails app directory> >
Allow from all
</Directory>
RailsEnv development
RailsDefaultUser root
</VirtualHost>
As I was going thru httpd.conf in detail, I noticed that Apache kicking off the process under user ”Daemon” every time I started the web server. This surely sounded like a issue to me and can lead to permission problems. So it was just a matter of changing this user to the my default user and bounce the server. This finally fixed it.
Look for following in your httpd.conf
User daemon
change this to
User <default machine user>
Here is one reference which talks about solution similar to what I explained above.
Following are some references for installing phusion passenger
This post is been in sitting a queue for a while and today I get a time to write about it. As most of us know Twitter is the new way of looking at the news. Well I should say it is new age media now. There is certainly a media shift happened in last few months around twitter. We get to seebreaking news on Twitter before A-listers of the media.
Lot of mainstream bloggers using twitter more often than ever. Even though there was quite bit of apprehension about whether twitter can go mainstream or ready to go mainstream, according to me gap between mainstream media and twitter media is very perceptional and your attention span. Big difference between these two is that news on twitter comes in packet of 140 characters and you have running stream of updates to read the whole story. Having said that every tweet (one status update on Twitter) becomes very important for followers(in a traditional media its readers) to consume when someone updates his/her status (traditionally news publisher).
With FatBird, we released a new feature called “MyTweets“. With this feature MessageDance becomes the full blown client to Twitter which can send, receive your tweets on demand along with other goodies. Check it out..
Bling Your Tweets
MyTweets in a true sense supercharges your tweets. User’s 140 characters gets more powerful as it exposes important assets of each tweet.
TinyURL expansion : instead of tinyurl , It expands the url and shows the real url to the user
If the url is YouTube video url it shows YouTube video right below user’s tweet.
If the url is Flickr url it shows Flickr photo right below user’s tweet.
If the url is MP3 it shows audio player inline right below the tweet.
User can Reply or Retweet right there from each tweet.
It feels good to save user some time and few clicks on the WWW.
Set your tweets free with TweetShare.
Having done all the blinging to tweets, How about setting your tweets free to go wherever they want to go?.
Big B started his blog to communicate with his fans, This comes after Amir Khan launched his blog previously. This should have happened long back, but slowly it is hitting people who are vocal about issues.
Indian film megastar Amitabh Bachchan has reached out to fans in cyberspace, launching a blog about his life which has triggered a flood of responses from around the world.
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