Against entropy.
Update 2012: This material was written in 2006. Now, many years later, it still poisons the search engines with its presence. If you want to use Ruby and a package manager on OS X, you should use RVM and Homebrew. I will leave this page here as a warning to you, dear reader. Do not …
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Using irb with your Ruby? Yeah, I thought so. If you want syntax coloring, ri inside irb and a shorter prompt, get Wirble: sudo gem install wirble And add an .irbrc file to your home directory, following Wirble’s advice on what to put there. Oh, and when you have one of those, you could add …
Just started my morning with fixing a personal annoyance with the current Rails distribution I am using with Ruby 1.8.5: warning messages about deprecated syntax. All I did was heed the advice in the warnings and edit all the when and else control structures that were using colons to using semi-colons. After that, my Rails …
When Obie F. was in town, he ended his talk by showing a final, extra-special productivity-boosting developer tool: Selenium on Rails. As it happens, it is our own Jonas “Danger Bay” Bengtsson who created that Rails plugin, on top of the ingenious Selenium testing software. Jonas’ own screencast is a little dated, but it shows …
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Cph.rb had one more visiting rockstar. Thanks for coming, folks, and thanks for presenting, Obie! Update: Jesper‘s photos. We did the most of Kassen as an impromptu conference space. There were a large table of guys from Cph.rb, and I got to meet well-known faces, hear some rumours, yammer on about Erlang (my programming language …
Update: photos by Pelle. Syndication with AtomPub, APP and GData… and Rails Olle Jonsson “explores” some things you would want to do with Atom… and how Rails enables you to do it. Update: My somewhat confused slides now available (PDF). DHH on ActiveResource …and then I got lucky, and David was able to give us …
Things I want to do, in Ruby-land: Read Ruby’s source code. (Self-study guide here) Read Ruby on Rails. You have the sources on your computer, don’t you? Follow Rails HEAD (RSS of changesets)
I will try to summarize my Malmo experience in the company of 20 new and old Railsers and presenter David Black. Our kind host Polar Rose had got a very central location for the event, a short hike from the train station. David did a good job of telling an understandable story about Ruby on …
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Get your Ruby butt to Malmo, Sweden! Workshop with David Black at kind host Polar Rose (a funky image search startup business). Time: Sunday, September 17 from 10:00-18:00, and is free to attend. Map on above link. [tags]rails,rubyonrails,event[/tags]
Computer scientist/bikeist Dave Clarke (05 Sep 2006) says (about Ruby on Rails being taught in colleges: I think there are many important computer science concepts to be learned from studying RoR. Typically, one should consider the language, be it Java, Ruby or C, to be the vehicle which helps one to learn concepts, rather than …