This post is part of my series on Clean Lion install for Ruby Development. Following on from your clean Lion install, we’ll now restore important files to make life easier, my list is below yours might vary slightly: Mail Keychains Address book Cyberduck bookmarks Opera wand, bookmarks, speedial .ssh folder
This guide is based on doing a clean Lion install from an existing Lion install (via upgrade). The reason I upgraded first was because I wanted to make sure all important files (such as Mail/keychains etc) that I will be copying over were already Lion-ready. Please note this post is part of the series Clean …
It really is quite simple! Buy your SSD (I purchased the Crucial M4 as it seems to have the best reviews) and get a mounting kit depending on where you want to install the disk. I opted to install it in the second DVD bay slot as this leaves your 4 HD bays free for …
I know there’s a few of these posts around, but I wanted to do one purely for my own notes if nothing else. Particularly as I will be setting things up a little differently (partly because I have just installed a SSD and will be using more than one drive and…) because some of the …
That’s no typo, I really did mean Ruby and Rails – but before you run off (those looking to learn only Rails) read on… I started off wanting to learn just Rails too, but I quickly realised two things: Rails will only get you so far – to be anything close to a Rails ninja, …
….and why it will be. RailsCasts.com has been going almost as long as Rails itself – and it’s always been free. Ryan’s produced almost 300 quality screencasts, and if you average them out to 10 minutes each, that’s about 50 hours of footage!
Would you believe this is my third attempt at writing this piece? The last two were waaaay too long (there’s just so much to cover!) Well let’s start with a few stand-out thoughts on Ruby: Ruby is an object of beauty –> inspired & passionate developers It’s elegant and concise –> a joy to work …
If, like me, you don’t like reading on screens that flicker (LCDs – which give you eye fatigue!) then you’ll be pleased to know I have converted The Little Book On CoffeeScript to .mobi format for use on your Kindle. Just download and copy to your Kindle – it’s that easy!
This is an answerback to the recent ‘What the hell is happening to rails?’ post by Steve Coast. He says Rails has become too hard/advanced for beginners, and recommends they ditch learning Rails 3 and go with an older version: If you want to learn rails, don’t get the latest pragmatic programmers book. Go and …
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If you’ve been scratching your head (or tearing your hair out!) trying to do this then, a) join the club, and b) fear no more! Here’s a quick guide to get you set-up and submitted! Step 1 – Create your MacRuby App First step is to create your MacRuby app in Xcode. Rather than me …
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