This is what I woke to this morning.

A fresh coat of snow. Ugh. Its around this time that Minnesotans start to really hate that beautiful white power from hell. I mean, I’ll take a foot of snow over below zero temps any day, but really, it is almost April… throw us a bone Mother Nature!
Archive for March, 2008
Ugh, more snow.
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Got a new monitor
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Yup, brand new 24 inch Samsung. I’m always amazed what an extra 4 inches will do for your screen real estate. I love it.
Slicehost problems with Gem *FIXED*
Monday, March 17th, 2008Today I set up 470.johnyerhot.com and set up a Rails app I worked on to run there, but I needed to install the Pdf-writer Gem for proper functionality. Low and behold when I tried
sudo gem install pdf-writer
I was greeted with nothing, just
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
and that was it. After searching and searching I realized the the version of Gem I had installed was 0.94 and that was the problem.
The solution is as follows:
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29548/rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
tar zxvf rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
cd rubygems-1.0.1
ruby setup.rb
sudo gem update
You just need to manually install the updated Gem. Cinch.