STICKY NOTES FOR UBUNTU 14.04

 SCREENLETS

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:screenlets/ppa 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lipik-screenlet

INSTALL DROPBOX IN UBUNTU 14.04 VIA THE TERMINAL

• Add Dropbox’s repository key

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5044912E

• Add Dropbox’s repository

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main"

• update and install Dropbox

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

Follow the steps When dropbox prompted with the screen

For Ubuntu 14.04

Add repository key

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5044912E

Add repository

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu precise main"

Update your system and install Dropbox

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

• When prompted with the screen, click Next
• Then click Start Dropbox to continue.

Install Ruby 2.1.3 Ubuntu 14.04

Install Ruby 2.1.3 Ubuntu 14.04

1. Open your terminal
2. One the menu select edit
3. On the drop down menu select Profile preferences
4. Inside the dialog box select the Title and Command
5. Under 'command' check the Run command as a login shell
6. Close and reopen the terminal

In the terminal

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core curl libmysqlclient18 nodejs

curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s satble

rvm install ruby -2.1.3

rvm use ruby -2.1.3

[2014-09-06 11:19:07] ERROR bad URI `\000\026\000\020\000'.

If you get 

[2014-09-06 11:19:07] ERROR bad URI `\000\026\000\020\000'.
[2014-09-06 11:19:07] ERROR bad URI `\000\026\000\020\000'.
[2014-09-06 11:19:07] ERROR bad Request-Line `\026\003\001\000�\001\000\000\177\003\001PHj�\031\006�L��'.
[2014-09-06 11:19:07] ERROR bad URI `\000\026\000\020\000'. 

You are probably requesting the page via SSL.

WEBrick does not understand SSL.  

Change the URL in your browser to use http instead of https.

I came across this error while running my rails server

[2014-02-04 20:31:12] WARN  Could not determine content-length of response body. Set content-length of the response or set Response#chunked = true

[2014-02-04 20:31:12] WARN  Could not determine content-length of response body. Set content-length of the response or set Response#chunked = true

[2014-02-04 20:31:12] WARN  Could not determine content-length of response body. Set content-length of the response or set Response#chunked = true

[2014-02-04 20:31:12] WARN  Could not determine content-length of response body. Set content-length of the response or se

This is a problem of Webrick. you can use "Thin" instead.

Add this to Gemfile

gem 'thin'

then rails s will use thin instead of Webrick, and the warn will disappear.

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