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Local Gem Loads Your Current Code

The other day while actively developing a gem, I got tired of rake reinstalling it to test its effect in irb with some other gems. I wanted to use the edge version of my gem, version now.

So I hacked up $LOAD_PATH:

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Gabriel Horner

bash auto completion

This tip comes from the ever resourceful Brian Cardarella, who has a gist on how to install and set up auto completion with Git. It’s based off of Shawn O. Pierce’s bash completion script. Just what will it do for you?

The contained completion routines provide support for completing:

Your Questions: The right way to program?

Catherine Musinsky wrote in with 3 questions, only one of which I'm going to answer publicly.

Catherine, thank you so much for this question. You've given me a fabulous gift: the justification to rant!

She writes:

The Rails Machine Podcast

As we’d hinted at a short while back, we’ve started up a podcast, hosted by our broadcaster-in-residence, Dan Benjamin. Each episode we’ll be talking with a different member of the Rails community about software development, business, being an entrepreneur, and more.

converting from svn

You’re probably reading this for one of a few reasons:

Your Questions: Amy's UI Workflow

Aaand... we're back to our regularly scheduled programming! Sorry for the delay. I am still working out how to keep my grubby mitts on all the balls I'm trying to juggle at once. It doesn't help that some of those balls are actually swords, doused in gasoline, and lit on fire.

Javier Vázquez from Switzerland writes:

Obama uses jquery

From http://www.whitehouse.gov/

tagging

Tagging in Git is a great way to denote specific release versions of your code, or perhaps if you need a way to refer to exactly one commit in your history for some reason. This post is going to over the right (and wrong) ways to use git tag.

Probably the best way to describe a tag is a post-it note that refers to one commit. It contains a name, so something like v1.0.0 or production, and a message too if you want. Git for Computer Scientists visualizes a tag like so:

And his trails do not fade

The owner of the memex, let us say, is interested in the origin and properties of the bow and arrow. Specifically he is studying why the short Turkish bow was apparently superior to the English long bow in the skirmishes of the Crusades. He has dozens of possibly pertinent books and articles in his memex. First he runs through an encyclopedia, finds an interesting but sketchy article, leaves it projected. Next, in a history, he finds another pertinent item, and ties the two together. Thus he goes, building a trail of many items.

A Brief Introduction to the Arduino

Arduino

Rspec domination | Rails Fire

Rspec domination

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Wycats is pushing this poll everywhere. As of Jan 02, RSpec is dominating at 53%

Wonder if this means anything for the future of the Rails default test framework…?