I just read about The Top Ten Lies of Engineers (via Volker’s non-blog). The line I like most is
… for version 1.0 of a product, the maximum allowable distance between the engineers and marketers is thirty feet.
Excellent read! In fact, I like it so much, I made it my new signature 
Does that look familiar to you?
Rails does not work with Ruby version 1.8.3.
Please upgrade to version 1.8.4 or downgrade to 1.8.2.
Well, it happened to me again when I tried to put my latest project onto my server box. This time I decided to attack the problem. At Dirk Elmendorf’s “Economy Size Geek” blog I found a desctiption on how to use the ruby 1.8.4 backport: Breezy + Rails == No Go.
It turns out that, besides the 90 MiB download, it works like a charm.
