The first issue of Rails Magazine is out! I’m super excited because I’ve got an article in there on receiving email with Rails. Go check it out. I can reproduce the article here after the publication has been out for 30 days so stay tuned for that.
Ruby Interpreter Comparison
I did a talk at QCon a while back on the different Ruby Virtual Machines. You can check out the presentation the InfoQ web site: Ruby VMs: A Comparison.
Offline Gem Server RDocs
Click To Zoom Get Sinatra, Rubygems, and Passenger working for offline RDocs? Count me in. I saw this and new I had to have it. I’ve been on some long plane rides recently and I frequently find myself wanting to look up something from a gem’s documentation while I’m coding. You can use the gem [...]
Turning Off Webrat’s Automatic Browser Opening
If you’re using webrat for doing your integration testing with Rails and you’re on OS X you may notice that webrat opens an html version of the failing test every time you run it. This can be fairly annoying if you’re running autotest. I didn’t see how to turn it off in the documentation but [...]
NVidia Graphics Update 2009-01-26
I’ve written before about the problems with the Mini DisplayPort to dual link DVI adapter from Apple. Today Apple has released a graphics update that is supposed to fix the cursor movement problem. After having installed it, it does NOT fix the out of sync issues. I guess we’ll have to wait on that one [...]
Mepisto to WordPress Converter
As a recent experiment, I tried converting a blog from Mephisto to WordPress. After some quick Googling, I found out that Jason Gill had already largely solved the problem. Unfortunately, his solution didn’t completely work for me because I didn’t want to launch Mephisto to do it and I have an aversion with that much [...]
Mini DisplayPort to Dual Link DVI Adapter Fix (Temporary)
The Mini DisplayPort to Dual Link DVI Adapter for the new aluminum Macbooks and Macbook Pros is getting some bad press due to sporadic flickering problems. There are seemingly very few people who aren’t having problems, myself included. This is a strange move by Apple. It seems unlikely that this could go unnoticed in testing [...]
I Win
I wanted to tell a story but realized I needed some background as to why it’s funny. I blogged about these once before, albeit very briefly. I thought I’d tell the story. It started a long time ago when I had an awesome job working at a student housing apartment complex. One of my coworkers [...]
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