Cpanel doesn't work with Rails 3

It seems one can't run Rails 3 apps with cpanel:

The road to Rails 3

I just found one very useful article about migrating from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3:

The Road to Rails 3: make your Rails 2.3 project more Rails 3 oriented

Prototype + jQuery != trouble

Having to use both Prototype and jQuery in a web app is something quite probable to happen. Trouble comes when both libraries share the global dollar-sign function. There is a remedy: Using jQuery with Other Libraries

Rails 3: errors.add_to_base

According to the official doc errors.add_to_base has been deprecated in Rails 3 and one should use errors.[:base] << "Msg"

Rails 3 escapes every string in <%= %>, so some HTML/Javascript might not work

Rails 3 escapes every string in a <%= %> automatically, i.e. applying the h() helper to it, so there might be some trouble with some hard-coded text constants:

A Reader implementation for Java Mobile that supporting more encodings

Java Mobile all in all supports ASCII and UTF-8.

AlbiteStreamReader provides the ability to read characters from other encodings.

java.util.zip for Java Mobile

Well, as I've been working on my ebook reader for the java mobile platform, and had decided upon having ePub as the standard book format for it, I bumped into the problem of decompressing zip files in Java Mobile. Well, thanks to the guys from GNU (and, respectively, their Classpath project) and some minor modifications from me, I've assembled a working version of java.util.zip for Java Mobile.

Random reading for Java Mobile

The lack of the RandomAccessFile class in J2ME's File API is quite a trouble when implementing something more advanced. It's especially true, if one needs to read some binary file in a non-linear fashion. To remedy this I wrote the AlbiteRandomReadingFile API that implements some similar functionality.

Everything seems to be deprecated in Rails 3

I've just built my Rails 2 app, and then it turned out the hosting provider had upgraded to Rails 3 and had dropped Rails 2 support completely.