Category: Softwares

Install thinking Sphinx in Ubuntu 13.04 and set up in Rails 3.2

Check sphinx is already installed in your system,

$ search

If you have already sphinx installed then it will show the sphinx version and other info, else it shows ubuntu information to install.

Download thinking sphinx from
here,

$ tar -xzf sphinx-2.0.8-release.tar.gz
$ cd sphinx-2.0.8-release/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Type, 

$ search

it will show the sphinx release and the other information.
Add the sphinx gem into your Gemfile

gem 'thinking-sphinx'

Do bundle install

$ bundle install

I assume you already made the model / controller code for sphinx. Else see this
Index all your records

$ rake ts:index -t

While indexing sphinx will generate the configuration file inside RAILS_ROOT/config/config/development.sphinx.conf

If you need to generate only configuration file not indexing you can use this command

$ rake ts:configure -t

Run sphinx searchd daemon

$ rake ts:start -t

You can stop sphinx searchd daemon

$ rake ts:stop -t

You can reindex so that sphinx will re index all records without creating a configuration file.

$ rake ts:reindex -t

Enjoy Sphinx searching!

Install Skype in Ubuntu 13.04

For 32 bit:

Install Dependencies.

$ sudo apt-get install libqt4-webkit

Download and install Skype

$ wget -O skype-linux.deb http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-lucid_4.2.0.11-1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i skype-linux.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install

Open the terminal and type

$ skype

Done.

Reference:
noobslab install skype

How to create a remote branch and fetch the code in Git

Type the command below to see, what all branches are there in remote.

$ git branch -r
  origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  origin/master
  origin/optimize-cities
  origin/optimize-merchants
  origin/release-dec-30
  origin/sso
  origin/staging

Create the remote Staging branch in local and fetch code:

 $ git checkout --track origin/staging

How to get haml support in netbeans 6.9

By default netbeans 6.9 is not providing the support for haml. We need to download the netbeans haml plugin and add to your netbeans.
Download the haml plugin from here:
http://postcomment.googlecode.com/files/org-netbeans-modules-haml.nbm

then go to your netbeans Tools/plugins/ and go to Downloaded tab, click on add plugin select the drop down and give your downloaded plugin path. Click on ‘OK’ button. Click on ‘Install’. Thats it!

Install timedoctor in ubuntu 12.04

Sign Up from http://www.timedoctor.com/

Install timedoctor from here:
http://www.timedoctor.com/download.html

Install dependancies: 

$ sudo apt-get install libxss1
$ sudo apt-get install libxmu

Go to the downloaded folder and do

$ chmod a+x setup-timedoctor-2.3.5-linux.run
$ ./setup-timedoctor-2.3.5-linux.run