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by Daniel Berger.
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I had to go into work this weekend in order to move two Rails apps (one large, one small) over from our old Linux servers to two new RHEL servers. It went smoothly except for one small problem - ldap authentication wasn't working.
You see, when I first wrote this app I tried to use ruby-ldap (the C extension). Unfortunately, it segfaulted when used in conjunction with WEBrick on Linux for reasons that I never figured out. Anyway, that forced me to resort to an 'ldapsearch' shell command (because net-ldap hadn't been written yet). It worked on the old Linux boxes, but was failing on the new machines for reasons I simply didn't have time to investigate.
Fortunately, I had already committed the new ldap authentication code (for an as yet unreleashed version), so I simply copy/pasted the new code and bingo, everything worked.
So, many thanks to Francis Cianfrocca and Austin Ziegler. :)
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