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RubiGen video from RejectConf Berlin
Go straight to video below I took a video recorder to the RejectConf, like I did in Portland. Unfortunately, there were two reasons I didn’t record any of them. Firstly, there didn’t seem to be any...
View ArticleWriting C extensions in RubyGems using newgem generators (plus a free...
Already know C extensions in RubyGems? Cool – then just run the following cmds and see what can be generated for you; plus check out the TextMate bundle at the bottom. sudo gem install newgem newgem...
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Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest
Everything to love about Ruby: the concise, powerful language; the sexy testing frameworks; and finally, the people. Everything to love about Objective-C: hmmm; well…; and finally, its the only...
View Articlenewgem 1.0.0 all thanks to Cucumber
The New Gem Generator (newgem) was exciting, moderately revolutionary, and definitely helpful two years ago when I created it. Of late it seems to attract a chunk of criticism: making a new gem, but...
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My RubyGems development tools and workflow
The Open Source Developers Conference (osdc) is a nifty conference – people from different language communities, who all do open source, come together in harmony. They simultaneously snigger at each...
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Future proofing your Ruby code. Ruby 1.9.1 is coming.
Bugger. I’m a Ruby monogamist. I use the Ruby that comes with Leopard (ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-darwin9.0]). Oh sure I’ve cheated on my Ruby a couple of times. It was just...
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Migrating project websites to github pages with sake tasks, new websites with...
Its almost Christmas time and that means presents. It also means that sometime between today and December 25th you need to go out and buy other people some presents because you haven’t done it yet....
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Install any HTML theme/template into your Rails app
Have you ever even bothered to Google for “rails html template”? There are millions of “WordPress themes” you can download for free or less than $100, a thousand times more static HTML templates, but...
View ArticleRails themes can remember things
I was getting annoyed at having to remember all the csspath/xpath expressions for a theme I reused in a new project. So, install_theme now helps each theme folder remember the previously used settings....
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Hacking someone’s gem with github and gemcutter
Ever used a rubygem, found a bug, and just wanted to quickly bust out the big guns and fix it quickly? The gem command doesn’t come packed with a way to find the original source repository for a gem....
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