Sam Pierson's Blog

The performance of Typo under mod_rails is unimpressive. As it’s early days for this server and I don’t have the time to investigate this, I have just switched the blog to WordPress and it is now much snappier.

Typo is a blogging application written in Ruby on Rails.  Here is how to install it (using MySQL as the back-end database):
Get MySQL working, make sure you have MySQL header files and client libraries.
Install mod_rails.
Install the typo gem.  Apple put MySQL headers and libraries in /usr/include/mysql and /usr/lib/mysql which is not what the typo gem [...]