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Category Archives: Rails
What to put in your gitignore
A question that comes up frequently is what to put in your .gitignore files. I recently stumbled across a nice GitHub project which has .gitignore templates for every language it seems. Here’s a few which are useful in my daily … Continue reading
GitX – a great Mac OS X tool for visualizing your Git history
I’m a command-line kind of guy. I guess when your CS teachers in high school raised you on a Minicomputer with a dumb terminal and vi, you get used to that kind of thing.So I mostly use the git command … Continue reading
What to do before you do Ruby on Rails development on Mac OS X Leopard
Apple has a new series about Ruby on Rails development on Mac OS X Leopard. Its a nice article to help get you going. One thing I’d like to reiterate is that it is good to lock down your RubyGems … Continue reading
2007 Training in Review
Last year I took a lot of training. In the past, my employers would usually send me to one training event. Sometimes I would get to go to two if times were good. Other times, there was no training budget. … Continue reading
Posted in Cocoa, Conferences, Programming, Rails, RailsConf, Ruby
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What tools do you use for Ruby on Rails?
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
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Ruby bugs on Leopard
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
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How to run Cisco VPN over EVDO when you’ve got VMWare Fusion installed
Well I finally got one of those EVDO cards, specifically a Novatel Wireless Merlin EX720 that fits nicely in the Express Card slot of my MacBook Pro. It works great pretty much everywhere I go, but there’s one thing that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Rails
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CCMenu helps you monitor your builds
You’re using continuous integration, right? If not, you really should. And you should probably set it up to email you if the build breaks. But there’s a nice way to get notification right on your OS X desktop: it’s CCMenu. … Continue reading
Rails 1.2.4 – getting ready for Rails 2.0
Rails 1.2.4 came out today. The big thing here in my opinion is that it helps you get ready for Rails 2.0, since it includes more deprecations. I had to fix a deprecation for pagination, which will be optional in … Continue reading
Posted in Rails, Streamlined
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Automated CRUD Plugins BOF tonight at 8:30pm
We’ll be gathering together all the Rails folks who want better scaffolding, like Dave Thomas said he wanted last year, tonight at the Automated CRUD Plugins BOF – scaffolding and beyond. It’s at 8:30PM over in Room C122. Lance and … Continue reading
Posted in Rails, RailsConf, Streamlined
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