Ok so finally getting back to hacking (although the typing is a bit slow due to silly me cutting the middle finger on my left hand with a razor blade stripping wire--but I digress).

Am basically scrapping my old code and starting afresh, so just some quick notes on how I was setting up a new rails app (mainly so I don't forget the next time I need to do it).

create an empty git repos on my central server (mainly for backups / sharing).

GIT_DIR=proj.git git init

On my devel workstation start off with your standard rails app.

rails appname

.gitignore << END
log/*.log
tmp/**/*
.DS_Store
doc/api
doc/app
END

touch log/.gitignore
touch tmp/.gitignore

git commit -m "Initial Commit"

Now need to push changes out to our central server

git remote add origin ssh://centralserver/proj.git
git push origin master

Now following a combination of Ryan Bates Railscast Gitting Rails 2.1RC1 and Graeme Mathieson's Using Git Submodules to track Vendor Rails snag a copy of edge rails into vendor rails, and update scripts,etc...

git submodule add git://github.com/rails/rails.git vendor/rails
rake rails:update
git commit -m "Imports Rail's Head as Submodule"
git push origin master

And now we are ready to do some coding.

Mainly so I don't forget..

Was going to convert some of my old perl code over to Ruby, perhaps looking to redo my graphing/management over to Rails as well. In order to do that I needed access to the ruby bindings for RRDTool. It appears that mac ports doesn't have a variant to install the bindings, and installing them via source was failing. Some googling pointed me to this Post
from Mike Perham. Which got me closer, but it appears I had to set the ARCH flags as well as outlined here.

so the final solution was

cd rrdtool-1.2.27/bindings/ruby/
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" ruby extconf.rb –with-rrd-dir=/opt/local
make
sudo make install

This was driving me up a wall since it installed Easily on my FreeBSD servers at the office and on my powermac. Well guess you learn something new everyday.

So got the new Mac Book Pro, and wow it is quick. Did a clean install and then migrated what I wanted over so I would have everything clean / fresh and not worry about any legacy / crufty bits. So as of now I am set, and it works great. Not sure how much more productive I am.

On a related note, I traded some OT to be able to keep my powerbook, so that is now a backup machine @ home.

So I joined the Tech Valley Ruby Brigade a couple months back. Is great to hang out with like minded people and talk code. Our last meeting we had Chris M from Rubyology and he talked about Wuby. It is a neat little project, and I've been digging into the code a bit. One of our members was talking adding pid/kill support directly to it. So after the meeting I dug in and hacked some code to do just that. I will probably do a bit more hacking/poking at it as time permits. I am still working on getting more comfortable with ruby (years of perl and php breed some interesting habits..)

Left alaska a couple of hours ago, fresh from being built in China. So in theory I should be at least 10x more productive Was time to upgrade the laptops at $DAY_JOB, so wound up getting a nice 17" Hi-Def MBP. So now I just need to get off my butt and get some work done.

Taking a break from my market research, and catching up on some TV by trying to clean out the DVR. So while fast forwarding through commercials, I see the mac vs pc with santa claus. Animation was cool, and funny like all of the. Get a Mac ads @ Apple if you haven't seen it yet. It made me smile and actually stop and rewind the dvr to watch the full thing, which now-a-days is a rarity.
You might wonder why I am posting this, well my current development environment is mac based, and I am admitted fan of their hardware (I am posting this from my 17" powerbook G4 running Leopard).

Ok figure every startup needs to have a blog right? So this is ours..

So we are Just Another Web StartUp (and no, that isn't the name of the project... That is in stealth mode right now). We know startups are a dime a dozen these days, but ours is going to be different and change the world, and revolutionize something or other. Heck perhaps we just miss the days of Bubble 1.0 and want to relive the glory, the pain, the agony, the caffeine.

Well time to get back to coding and maybe, just maybe working on a business plan. Nah that would make too much sense, so back to finding out what they've changed in Rails 2.0, and wasting time (err market research) on Twitter, Digg, Pownce, etc...