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Re: Quick Look at Notepad++ as a Windows Ruby/Rails Editor

Jun Valdez — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:29:01 -0000

To begin with Windows is a horrible development environment to work with, if you have no other choice consider running a VM to develop your apps that way the transition in deploying your apps is a lot easier unless of course Windows is still your OS of choice for hosting it. I personally use tmux, VIM and Virtualbox with a Debian guest, I simply ssh to the VM and have a set of funky dotfiles for syntax highlighting, matching of do end, "{", "[", etc. etc. Check out this old article http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/...

Re: Starting a “professional” Rails 3.1 app with Web App Theme, Devise, and Kaminari « Philippine Ruby Users Group

Vilas — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:41:30 -0000

This is awesome. The amount of detail and pain you have taken to foresee the issue others are going to run into is really great. Thanks so much.

Re: Starting a “professional” Rails app with Haml, Rspec, Devise, and Web App Theme

hackhowtofaq.com — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:17:53 -0000

Thanks a lot for your hard work ;)

Re: May 2011 PhRUG Meetup (with videos!)

Elymar Apao — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:18:42 -0000

Was curious if the this blog was Typo or Mephisto.
Didn't know (until I saw J Torres' link) that there was a PhRub group.
Awesome that there's a local group for this now.

Re: May 2011 PhRUG Meetup (with videos!)

John Grande — Sun, 22 May 2011 12:57:53 -0000

i was here :D

Re: May 2011 PhRUG Meetup (with videos!)

John Grande — Sun, 22 May 2011 12:57:42 -0000

was

Re: Web Developer Interview Questions

Maricris S. Nonato — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:22:07 -0000

IMHO, asking too much technical questions doesn't necessarily imply that the interviewee is knowledgeable. Process and thought organization as well as community awareness also counts. If the questions are those whose answers have been established a long time ago, then that wouldn't cut as the only questions you need to ask. Evolution is a key factor as well.

Re: Sowing the Seeds

Raven — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:56:52 -0000

Nice talk there! I hope you can also find time to have a conference or workshop here at Cagayan de Oro or somewhere in Mindanao. The Technology is rapidly pacing and it's really nice if we can keep up with it here in the Philippines (not just in metro area).

Re: Ruby Hacking Secrets From Barney Stinson

Nov Matake — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:19:32 -0000

Thanks for your article about my fb_graph :)
You can also use FbGraph::Post.search(query), and it returns a collection of FbGraph::Post, not a simple Hash.

Re: Starting a “professional” Rails app with Haml, Rspec, Devise, and Web App Theme

Sebastian — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:58:10 -0000

Hi,

thank you for your tutorial! I have a problem with the applicaion.html.haml and the index.html.haml file. They are not looking like yours. I have paste my code into pastie.org[1] I have also made an screenshot[2] to give you an idea what my site looks like and you have a better understanding with my problem. I hope you can give me a hint waht i am doing wrong

Regards,
Sebastian

[1] http://pastie.org/1751717
[2] http://img703.imageshack.us/i/...

Re: Free Windows Ruby/Rails Editors: Redcar and Sublime Text 2

Sebastian — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:46:31 -0000

Have you had a look at eTexteditor?

Re: Starting a “professional” Rails app with Haml, Rspec, Devise, and Web App Theme

Kresimir Bojcic — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:31:06 -0000

Really cool post, thanks!

Re: Starting a “professional” Rails app with Haml, Rspec, Devise, and Web App Theme

Elmer Rivera — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:21:29 -0000

looks like the `default` theme of padrino-admin :)
nice write up.

Re: Ruby on Windows

arscariosus — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:32:47 -0000

Hello, it's nice to see that there are a lot of Ruby hackers in the Philippines now. I'm also a Filipino, an undergrad student that's been learning ruby core and rails through online materials even though it's not included in our curriculum.
As for my comment proper to this post, it's annoying to work with Rails on Windows since it's so noticeably slow. So students like me end up using *nix and or buying a Mac if the budget allows. The sluggishness is bearable with Ruby core (solving competition materials and small MPs) but with Rails, it sucks. Various blog posts and forums have mentioned that there's something wrong with Windows itself, so we can't do anything about it, the best thing we could to is to set up a VB. :(
I know this because I have this fascination with netbooks (even though netbooks might not be designed for development) because of their small form factor, and using the same hardware I've worked with small projects with Rails, and it definitely crawls natively on Windows, but on Ubuntu and my old Power Mac G4, it works great.

Re: Ruby on Windows

drnic — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:53:07 -0000

Top tip for virtualisation: http://vagrantup.com/ Very nice project if you like a VM on your windows machine.

Re: XMPP Development in Ruby

Krasimir Angelov — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:26:30 -0000

"For each account, there should only be one XMPP client logged in at any time. If client A is already logged in, and then client B logs in, client A will be disconnected and will stop receiving notifications."

I will not agree with that. XMPP is designed to support few client logged in from one account at a time. That's why there is resource identifier in the JID -http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep... .

When you have few clients logged in per account then their priority is important - the one with highest priority will receive messages/notifications.

Re: Ruby on Windows

Luis Lavena — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:27:15 -0000

Interesting,

I have no personal objection on these packages. As InstantRails, these can be delivered to users as long source code is also available.

As for the installer, I would recommend use the 7zip package as base, install the gems in it using that version of ruby with "--no-ri --no-rdoc --env-shebang" and then package as the installer.

The 7zip packages will be better so you we are not distributing different versions of Ruby everywhere, also the customization of the installer itself to note your work.

If you don't mind, join us at RubyInstaller group:

http://groups.google.com/group...

I see lot of potential from your v0 installer to become the next "InstantRails" alternative.

Re: Ruby on Windows

Bry — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:58:19 -0000

Thanks for the response, Luis!

BTW, we're planning to hold Ruby and Rails workshops in local colleges here in the Philippines and we're thinking of building self-contained Rails installers (think Instant Rails but with Rails 3 and SQLite) because these schools primarily use Windows and usually don't have fast internet access.

Can we fork the RubyInstaller project to build these installers? Also, would we encounter problems (legal or otherwise) if we package Rails and SQLite together with Ruby?

Re: Ruby on Windows

Luis Lavena — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:09:21 -0000

Hello!

Thank you for writing down this article! I believe too that for Ruby, acceptance of Windows as a platform should be addressed and developers should encouraged to consider it and support the users.

I have one comment in relation to PowerShell usage. Please note that batch files for gems like rake, rails and others might not work as expected under it.

If you want better copy and buffer capabilities than the default cmd.exe, you can wrap it around Console2 (available on SourceForge)

See our group for details and possible issues with PowerShell usage:

http://groups.google.com/group...

Thank you again for your article, feel free to add it to our Wiki:

http://github.com/oneclick/rub...

Cheers!