Archive for January, 2007
Firebug Extension Upgrade
by casey on Jan.25, 2007, under Drunken Rambling
All that I can say is it is super SICK. Talk about web development on steroids.
http://www.getfirebug.com
RUM – Ruby Users of Minnesota, Minneapolis, St. Paul and surrounding areas – Ruby.mn
by casey on Jan.20, 2007, under Drunken Rambling
If you don’t already know the Ruby Users of Minnesota (RUM) is the premier Ruby user group in the Minneapolis, Twin Cities (Mpls and St. Paul) area. You could call it the Ruby Users of Minneapolis or Ruby Users of St. Paul. But no matter what the name is, it is still all the same great RUM with the same great people.
Meetings are typically held on the last Tuesday of the every month at the Loring Park Dunn Bros. More information is available at Ruby.mn.
Not All Mistakes Can Be Fixed
by casey on Jan.10, 2007, under Drunken Rambling
In life, mistakes are made all the time that are easily fixed by first admitting the fault and then taking the right course to correct the problem. A broken war is not one of those mistakes you can fix by simply admitting that “mistakes were made”. Sometimes things are broken that can’t be fixed — a very hard lesson for many people who are “fixers”. I liken it to the urge you get to buy more of a falling stock. Initially, you think its a good investment to lower your dollar cost average, but most financial experts recommend closing the position for a small loss rather than investing in a dead stock for an even worse loss in the long run. In the same way Bush’s Vietnam cannot be fixed by simply admitting “mistakes were made” and adding more troops.
Box in a Box for You
by casey on Jan.08, 2007, under Drunken Rambling
Box in a box for you — So funny — Think SNL — D*** in a Box.
My New Year’s Resolutions
by casey on Jan.05, 2007, under Drunken Rambling
In no particular order
- Attend my Brazilian Jui-Jitsu class at the Warrior’s Cove least 2 times a week with goal of obtaining
secondfirst degree gold belt by end of the year - Get Carson into swimming lessons in the spring
- Do everything I can to help make Nearbie a success
- Give Grails a chance — Write at least 2 apps using it
- Take Erin to Napa Valley in the fall
- Cook more
- Contribute to one open source project (JRuby?) or release something as a plugin or gem
Well, I realize it is light on “Family Time” and pretty heavy on “Casey Time” — which, will undoubtedly be a topic of discussion at the dinner table tonight. Of course, that is because I saved the most important one for last –
- Be the best husband and father in the world
What are your resolutions?
Mac OSX Fresh Rails Install
by casey on Jan.03, 2007, under Drunken Rambling
Here are the steps I took to get Rails running on a fresh MacBook Pro.
Start by following
http://blog.nanorails.com/articles/2006/10/17/installing-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger-10-4-8
The big things to keep an eye out for
Don’t forget to update the Darwin ports sudo port -d selfupdate very very important
Don’t forget the +server portion of the mysql5 install
I typically use mongrel and mongrel cluster so I don’t bother with the fcgi crap.
I also found out that the Darwin Port rb-rubygems is broken in the latest release and you will see a strange stack looking like this when you do sudo gem install blah
/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — sources (LoadError)
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:462:in `sources’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:472:in `source_index_hash’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:436:in `install’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:258:in `execute’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:220:in `each’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:220:in `execute’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:69:in `invoke’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:117:in `process_args’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:88:in `run’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:29:in `run’
from /opt/local/bin/gem:23
No worries, just manually reinstall ruby gems. In my case
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11289/rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
extract and sudo ruby setup.rb.
That is really about it… The next big part is ImageMagic/RMagick — I’ll add updates as I work through that mess.
