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RailsTutorial 1.4 Deployment : Using Heroku FAIL!

Posted on September 15, 2012 by davidsmith

Deploying to an external site.  The tutorial suggests Heroku. This requires creating an accoutn at Heroku. I created the account, but when trying to deploy I received this error: An error occurred while installing sqlite3 (1.3.5), and Bundler cannot continue. … Continue reading →

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RailsTutorial: 1.3 GitHub

Posted on September 15, 2012 by davidsmith

Working on setting up the git repository in the totorial section 1.3, I was unable to push the git project to the repository getting a $:git push -u origin master Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly … Continue reading →

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Ruby On Rails Tutorial Michael Hartl

Posted on September 15, 2012 by davidsmith

After realizing the difficulty of implementing my learning curve using the Head Start Rails book (v2 book: Rails is now v3), I decided to look around for other possibilities.  This book is referenced at the main Rails guides site, so … Continue reading →

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HeadFirst Rails: First use of Book

Posted on September 13, 2012 by davidsmith

I love the Head First series, for their tongue-in-cheekiness as well as the tiered approach to learning.  So I was eager to receive this book and start to go through the process with Rails. It is important to recognize that, … Continue reading →

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SQLite Database manager

Posted on September 13, 2012 by davidsmith

Rails defaults to using the SQLite database.  In order to access this database directly, there is a plugin that can do this from within Firefox, called (appropriately enough) sqlite_manager.  It can be obtained here:

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Tk –

Posted on September 10, 2012 by davidsmith

“Tk is the only cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Unix) graphical user interface toolkit designed exclusively for high-level dynamic languages, like Tcl, Ruby, Perl, Python and many others. Whatever language you use, this site brings you the current, high-quality essential information you … Continue reading →

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TextMate – TMTools

Posted on September 9, 2012 by davidsmith

“The TMTOOLS plug-in is a conglomeration of shell commands which provide the user with advanced functionality to interact with TextMate.” Information here: Download git for osx mate : allows command line access to TextMate. RubyAmp how to install here Note TextMate is … Continue reading →

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TextMate: Interactive support fix for Snow Leopard

Posted on September 9, 2012 by davidsmith

It appears that in the Ruby download, a configuration issue with Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.x)  causes the ability to use the standard input (‘gets’) to break.  As long as you are running the script from the terminal then it will … Continue reading →

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TextMate 3: useful links and ideas for Ruby

Posted on September 9, 2012 by davidsmith

TextMate Shortcuts szeryf’s list of very useful keyboard shortcuts RubyAmp a TextMate Bundle that adds lots of functionality for Ruby code development

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TextMate 2

Posted on September 8, 2012 by davidsmith

At first glance, I like this environment. There are a lot of autocomplete functions, and many ways to program additional ones or create snippets.  Cmd-R runs the environment.  I have not yet tried multi-file projects, but, if the rest of … Continue reading →

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