August 5th, 2010 – 04:46 PM
Read “Pure Rspec”, a great slideshow by Jon “Lark” Larkowski.
It contains some really cool rspec tips and hints, how to write your tests more readable and compact.
August 5th, 2010 – 04:39 PM
I found a few articles that describe easier ways to create a gem. From the entire list of available tools, i want to highlight two: jeweler and (Mr.) bones.
Mr. bones seems a very configurable route to take: it allows you to define your own skeletons (application templates) or use those of others, e.g. bort. On [...]
July 4th, 2010 – 08:23 PM
I have made the complete switch. My home development machine is no longer Windows XP, no longer dual booting Ubuntu but a full-fledged Ubuntu. After installing the dual-boot, and my machine at work this is the third time to install an ubuntu machine, and getting everything ready for ruby development.
I just want to archive my [...]
May 26th, 2010 – 10:07 AM
In my gemspec created by jeweler I saw string creating using %Q. What?
gem.summary = %Q{TODO: one-line summary of your gem}
gem.description = %Q{TODO: longer description of your gem}
I found a page describing ruby string creation, and it seems %Q is the equivalent of double quote delimited strings and [...]
May 20th, 2010 – 10:02 AM
I am using ruby 1.8.7 on windows (mingw32), and all of a sudden i cannot run
c:\> ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/daphonz/dirty_associations.git
Plugin not found: ["git://github.com/daphonz/dirty_associations.git"]
the suggested variations also don’t work, e.g.
ruby script/plugin install http://github.com/daphonz/dirty_associations.git
ruby script/plugin install http://github.com/daphonz/dirty_associations.git/
all give the same error.
But, apparently, it has something to do with the mingw32 platform.
In C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\activesupport-2.3.5\lib\active_support\core_ext\kernel\reporting.rb the following line can [...]
Went to arrrrcamp last friday (Arrrr as in Ruby, Rails, Radiant and, of course, Rhum!). It was the third edition of this unique ruby-on-rails event, and the third time i visited it ;) So i am a regular :)
The first year i was just starting ruby and my then-collegue and me learned a lot. [...]
April 29th, 2010 – 12:29 PM
The easy solution to set a bookmark inside a Word-document:
require ‘win32ole’
word = WIN32OLE.new(’Word.Application’)
doc = word.Documents.Add("#{path to your template here}")
doc.Bookmarks("bookmark-name").Range.Text = "new content here"
This will work, and will replace the bookmark with the text you wanted to insert.
Recently i had to convert a document that was first built using mail-merge. I am not very familiar with [...]
April 8th, 2010 – 10:17 AM
working on Windows Server 2008R2 64-bit, installing ruby 1.8.7, ruby-oci8 ran into the following error, after requiring ‘oci8′ : LoadError 193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application
On this machine a 64bit version of Oracle was installed. So the OCI.dll was a 64-bit version. The fix seemed easy: copy a 32-bit version of the [...]
March 31st, 2010 – 02:29 PM
Most of my ruby/rails development is against a legacy Oracle database. One of the things we needed to fix, was a user-table with not enough fields. Because the user table was shared with another application, we were not able to alter the table.
So we added another table, user_params, containing possibly extra parameters for each user.
Now [...]
March 24th, 2010 – 04:24 PM
I started developing ruby more than a year ago, on windows, which might not be the ideal platform :)
But i started out with the standard one-click installer, ruby version 1.8.6, which up until recently served me fine and is an easy way to start. But when i felt the need to install metric_fu, i found [...]
