February 20, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Some Basic Ruby Tools for Sniffing out Errors

Needing to know what’s going on under the hood is a big part to solving problems and challenges.  For the longest time I only ever used print statements to output to the console the state of something at a specific point.  That’s all I ever used in Python.  But sometimes you need to do a…

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April 27, 2014 by Daniel P. Clark

/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432 with a Virtual “var” Folder

Well if you’re reading this you’ve likely run into a problem with accessing your postgresql DB.  Whatever your situation this information should be useful for you. In my case I’m using it with Rails.  And this is the Rails error I received: PG::ConnectionBad could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the…

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