ruby
_Why All The Tears?
Last month when _Whytheluckystiff (_why) “went missing” I was not sure how to respond. I needed time to process what was happening. A lot of people, including some big names in web development were quick to step in and give a heartfelt thanks and goodbye to a man that had done so much for the [...]
First Impressions: Five Runs RM-Install
Last night I tried the RM-Install product from Five Runs. It’s a multi-platform (Linux and Mac) Ruby on Rails Stack powered by BitRock. It is very similar to the Windows RubyStack offered by BitNami, but it is also supports a production install option.
I tried the development install and it was very easy to [...]
Sinatra Resources
If you still haven’t tried Sinatra (which you should have by now) then maybe you just need some additional resources. Here is a site with some tutorials and a screencast.
DataMapper Installation Woes
I started playing more with Sinatra, and I have so many ideas for it’s usage. At work I’m using to prototype a quick way to enable remote execution of .Net command line apps. So I started looking into DataMapper as well to use with it.
So far I can’t get the datamapper gem to install on [...]
Trying out Sinatra on Windows
I saw a lot of buzz about the new Sinatra web framework and decided I’d give it a try. I have a client now that has a simple site they need up now and then I can migrate them to Rails over time. When I saw how easy Sinatra looked, I thought I [...]
CI: Using RoR for ASP.Net – Success! (Sort of…)
In my continued quest to use Ruby to build my .Net apps, I have been successful using Ruby’s “sh” command to call the C# compiler (csc.exe) and successfully build my assemblies. I still have not gotten it to use MSBuild, but I’ve been lazily trying to use the .csproj files generated by Visual Studio, [...]
Continuous Integration : Using RoR to manage my ASP.Net builds
So I’ve started down the path of setting up continuous integration (CI). I’m working on a project now for a client that wants to be involved with the process as much as possible. The CI with a few other hacks will allow him to use the current working version of his website at [...]
NetBeans 6.10 : Good Rails IDE
Update 2/8/2008: Since I posted this they shipped the release version and now intellisense is working beautifully. Over the last month NetBeans has become my go-to IDE for Rails.
I downloaded and started using NetBeans 6.10 Milestone 10 last night. I am thoroughly impressed! I’ve been using Aptana(RadRails) and Komodo Edit and although [...]
Coming To An Enterprise Near You?
Like a couple of aging heavyweight fighters, Java and Microsoft have been slugging it out in the enterprise web application market for some time now. It seems like the fight continues round after round with no real winner in sight. But there have been some very interesting things happening in the last month that seem [...]
Vista – R.I.P.
I used Vista for over a week and I was not impressed. I was not particularly thrilled that when deleting some files I had to do 3 separate actions because of the Windows Defender crap. It made me feel like Windows was trying to defend itself from me. I like my operating [...]
