The easiest way to install Ruby on your system is to use one of these Ruby version managers: RVM or rbenv.
But sometimes, you just need to install Ruby from source, for example for your production environment where there isn’t version manager installed. In fact, I was tasked with upgrading Ruby on our production server last week. And it was not as straight forward as I was expecting.
Few months back when I started working extensively Vim, I came across a screencast from Ben that is specifically about using Vim for Rails Developer
I am the perfect target audience of the screencast - as I was both new to Rails and Vim.
It is a paid screencast, but Ben is kind enough to send me a free copy in return of a blog review. Well, this is the promised review - a couple of months late.
Originally titled: Encoding Issues When Upgrading to Rails 3.2 - after doing some more detective work - the problems might actually be something else..
I’m inspired. I have watched a couple of Gary Bernhardt screencasts on Destroy All Software - particularly on Unix scripting and I guess I am a inspired and quite happy that I already can put into practice what I learned.
Ok, let me start by saying this - I hate working with Flash Builder. Being an Eclipse based software - of course it is bound to be slow and resource hungry. I can only get it to work just below my frustration threshold after I installed it on an SSD.
Last week at work, we had to rewrite the reporting module for our application, as there were some issues with the old report and the complexity of the code makes it hard to work out the cause of the issues.
I came to the realization that I am a long way away from where I am now to where I want to be with regards to mastering Ruby.
Stumbled upon Tamer Saleh’s (VP Engineering of Engine Yard) post: Jobs are temporary, teams are for life - which I found worth reading. If I were in a management/leadership position, that’s how I would see my developers - by helping them reaching their long term goals.
Although strictly speaking, I am not in working in a cubicle, but rather sharing a small room with the senior developer here.
Now some pictures.