Category Archives: Rails

GitX – a great Mac OS X tool for visualizing your Git history

Posted on March 17, 2010 by luis

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 →

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What to do before you do Ruby on Rails development on Mac OS X Leopard

Posted on March 1, 2008 by luis

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 →

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2007 Training in Review

Posted on January 21, 2008 by luis

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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How to run Cisco VPN over EVDO when you’ve got VMWare Fusion installed

Posted on October 24, 2007 by luis

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 →

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CCMenu helps you monitor your builds

Posted on October 18, 2007 by luis

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 →

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Rails 1.2.4 – getting ready for Rails 2.0

Posted on October 5, 2007 by luis

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 →

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Automated CRUD Plugins BOF tonight at 8:30pm

Posted on May 19, 2007 by luis

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 →

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JRuby 1.0 coming at end of May

Posted on May 19, 2007 by luis

Sitting through the Sun keynote at RailsConf. Tim Bray is up and speaking and making it clear that Sun likes Ruby. Which is a good thing, but I guess we haven’t seen so much commercial sponsorship in the Ruby world … Continue reading →

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