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How to set-up a Ruby and Elixir dev environment on macOS Catalina

December 1, 2019 February 3, 2021 / Dev / catalina, elixir, erlang, git, macOS, MacVim, phoenix, rails, ruby, textmate

Edit: Please note there is a newer version of this guide here: https://astonj.com/how-to-set-up-a-ruby-and-elixir-dev-environment-on-macos-2021/ Having recently started afresh on macOS, I thought I’d make some notes on setting up a new dev environment. In this post we’ll set up a fresh dev environment for Ruby and Elixir – but you can use this guide for any similar web …

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How to get Capistrano to ignore upload directories (Carrierwave)

June 23, 2012 November 21, 2019 / Archived (old posts) / git, rails, ruby

As you probably know, Capistrano creates a fresh directory for your app every time you deploy a new version. So if you want some directories (or files) to be carried through to each version, such as files uploaded by users, then we just need to tell Capistrano that they are shared – and to use …

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Intro to Git – 5 mins to see why it’s awesome

June 9, 2012 November 21, 2019 / Archived (old posts) / git, rails, ruby

This is more a handy reference for myself, but it also acts as a very quick intro to why git is awesome and well worth using. The main difference here is I remind you what the state of your working directory is as you make changes (as this was what confused me previously – as …

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