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Non-profits

Submitted by uday on September 1, 2022 - 4:34pm

My notes about business of non-profits

Fundraising:

  • Seeking financial support for a charity or cause
  • Effort to build long-term relationships with supporters
  • TLDR: Separate the donors from their money

Types of Gifts - may be solicited or unsolicited

Rails gem pg install failed - Lessons Learned 6

Submitted by uday on August 26, 2022 - 11:56pm

I created new Rails 7 app using Bootstrap

$rails new stockapp -c bootstrap -j esbuild

$cd stockapp/

$./bin/dev

The application worked as expected.

Then I added pg gem to Gemfile

$bundle install

However, it used to fail to install gem pg and I was getting error

Installing pg 1.4.3 with native extensions
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

 

I solved this by running following command

$sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

$bundle install

How I made space on Digital Ocean droplet

Submitted by uday on April 20, 2022 - 7:30pm

The droplet on Digital Ocean for my Rails project did not have any space left.

Here is how I created space by deleting files.

1. Login using SSH and check available space using $df -h

2. Check disk usage using du command.

$du -h | sort -h

This will list the directories showing the biggest size at the bottom.

I noticed that ./project/shared/log folder was consuming 3.3GB space.

3. In another terminal window, I opened sftp session.

4. sftp>cd project/shared/log

How to add bootstrap 5 to an existing Rails 7 app

Submitted by uday on January 16, 2022 - 2:11pm

I tried to install bootstrap 5 in existing Rails 7 application. The keyword "existing" is very important because for a new application you can try following.

$rails new app-name -j esbuild --css cssbundling-rails (Note: Do NOT miss -j flag to install JavaScript first. In one Youtube video, it was skipped, however it did NOT work for me for a test app I tried to install. Not sure why.)

How to set up Ubuntu 20.04 laptop

Submitted by uday on August 4, 2021 - 8:26pm

Recently, I could not boot into my laptop because the laptop ran out of space. No attempt to resize sda was successful. Since the disk was encrypted, I could not even access my data files.

I had to wipe out my current installation of Ubuntu 18.10 and install Ubuntu 20.04

Here are the steps I had to take to get the laptop ready.

0. Create Ubuntu iso image CD and install Ubuntu 20.04 onto laptop.

1. Install Mullvad VPN client

2. Customize Firefox browser