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    So, ladies and gents, if you'll recall I had to take ircwall down due to fights with my previous webhost. Well, I now finally have a VPS from linode, and ircwall is finally up and running again. Since I have control over the server now, ircwall actually runs in two daemonized mongrel instances, and is launched upon system reboot thanks to cron. lighttpd serves up static files for the application, and proxies requests that aren't for static files off to one of the mongrel servers (it does load balancing this way, as well).

So don't expect ircwall to have any troubles any time soon ;)

    As I stated in my previous post, I am making the source code behind ircwall available. During the past two days, I've rewritten a decent chunk to remove any ircwall specifics from the code, so all you should see is 'irsea' and nothing involving my trademarks. The code is available under a BSD license, and you are free to use it, although keep in mind I still haven't finished writing the default theme for it yet. I encourage everyone who wants to either run their own quote database, or just contribute to the features of ircwall to fork the repository and start hacking away.

You can find irsea here.

    See, there's a reason I don't enable things on production sites without checking them, because people make silly mistakes, see the following code:

    So, it's taken longer than I hoped, but I think I'm about ready to officially run 'bzr tag 0.5' in my ircwall branch and push the new code. The current version of ircwall (0.4) was just a quick skeleton to get the merb port started, and I've now rewritten just about everything from scratch, redone the design, and gotten rid of the forced authentication to post a quote. Since the only quotes on the site currently are my own, I'm simply going to dump the database schema and start over from page one.

    You know, I've had a few doubts about dreamhost from time to time, I know they oversell their bandwidth, but what host doesn't I guess. Still, having an ancient version of ruby with no way to change it so I can use merb, which requires at least ruby 1.8.6, kinda blew since it meant I couldn't get ircwall running on dreamhost. Well, that finally changed!