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Finally Back to Hacking...

nospam@example.com (Patrick Muldoon) — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:45:19 -0400

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.

Building the Ruby Bindngs for RRDTool on Leopard i386

nospam@example.com (Patrick Muldoon) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:14:54 -0400

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.

New MBP -- And wow is it fast

nospam@example.com (Patrick Muldoon) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:08:11 -0400

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.

wuby

nospam@example.com (Patrick Muldoon) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:08:04 -0400

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..)