Bob Martens

Tag: Ruby and Rails

  • My Favorite Part of Rails 3

    I just finished worked through the newest version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and feel like I have a much better handle on Rails 3.2. I do recommend it to get people up-and-running on some of the latest things in Rails. However, I think that my favorite part of Rails 3 is one of…

  • Being There is Half the Battle

    Barry Hess, a “local” Ruby programmer, posted about his experience with the Ruby Users of Minnesota. I’ve attended a number of meetings there as well and my experience, so far, matches much of his … just put a few years into the future since I didn’t attend until 2010. This quote is the one that…

  • Getting a start on New Years

    Yeah, it’s December, but I was waxing nostalgic this morning as I rocked my 4 month-old son at 5:15 in the morning. I thought back to what I was hoping to accomplish this year and taking stock in whether I had achieved any of those goals or, more likely, did they change. From there, I…

  • Current Ruby Development on Lion

    Here is what I’m currently using for Ruby development on OS X Lion. rbenv – handling multiple versions of Ruby ruby-build – installing different Ruby versions homebrew – managing all of my Unix-y stuff (including rbenv + ruby-build) guard – mainly used for running my tests on changes git – source control pow – runs…

  • Which GetBundles do I use?

    I’ve seen a few search queries coming here asking about GetBundles and Lion. Well, I grabbed the source from Eric Danielson’s fork of GetBundles at GitHub to get it to work properly. Mainly he added a change to the regex that allows https for GitHub, which was failing for me before. Hope this helps someone.