Monthly Archives: November 2007

What tools do you use for Ruby on Rails?

Posted on November 29, 2007 by luis

I’m curious to see what people are using for Ruby on Rails development. I know there are a lot of products coming out nowadays – 3rd Rail from Borland, IntelliJ IDEA (my preferred IDE before Eclipse when I used to … Continue reading →

Posted in Rails, Ruby | 4 Comments

rcov 0.8.1 fixes Safari 3 colorization

Posted on November 23, 2007 by luis

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you enjoyed time with your family and friends. Well one new thing that you can be thankful for is rcov 0.8.1. This new version of rcov fixes the colorization problem with Safari 3, which by … Continue reading →

Posted in Mac OS X, Ruby | 2 Comments

The software industry lacks political clout

Posted on November 22, 2007 by luis

So I’m still upset at this new Maryland tax on software services. I hope it is not a harbinger of what is to come. Hopefully it is just a bad move that is a short term fix for whatever is … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming, Washington DC | 3 Comments

Taxes on consulting?

Posted on November 21, 2007 by luis

I woke up this morning and nearly spit out my coffee as I read that the neighboring state of Maryland (I live in Virginia) is going to start charging sales tax on computer consulting – to the tune of 6%. … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming, Washington DC | 3 Comments

Reinstalling RubyGems on Leopard

Posted on November 19, 2007 by luis

So you’ve got your nice shiny Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard install with all the Ruby goodies you need. Why would you want to reinstall RubyGems? Well the Ruby community moves fast and RubyGems is sort of like Software Update … Continue reading →

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RubyGems 0.9.5 is now available

Posted on November 19, 2007 by luis

rubygems 0.9.5 was just released. It’s got quite a few new features, but the big one that’s bugged me for quite a while and I was going to fix but I never got around to it and now it’s finally … Continue reading →

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Ruby bugs on Leopard

Posted on November 10, 2007 by luis

I installed Leopard about 2 weeks ago and been doing Ruby on Rails development on it since. I encountered some bugs initially, but I managed to conquer them. I think Leopard’s great for doing RoR development. It seems faster, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Mac OS X, Rails, Ruby | 21 Comments

A RubyConf 2007 Haiku

Posted on November 4, 2007 by luis

mul ti ple VMs ruby hackers a plenty one dot nine corn bread

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I’m at RubyConf 2007

Posted on November 2, 2007 by luis

RubyConf 2007 is in Charlotte, NC this year. I’ve never been here before but its within driving distance from me. Its got a nice sized downtown with tall buildings. Sort of reminds me of a mini New York City in … Continue reading →

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