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Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)
Just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out why the c: drive on my Windows box filled up overnight. I’m beginning to get crabbier and crabbier about Windows, while trying to remember that the Mac just hasn’t had time to get old and crufty yet.
- RadRails moves to Aptana – Looks like this IDE has a plan to move forward. More info from the original RadRails team here .
- ActiveWarehouse ETL 0.6.0 Released – This project is moving along at a rapid pace. In a past life, I wrote half a book on OLAP in Microsoft-land. It’s another of those enterprisey areas I’d just as soon not get back into, though.
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Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)
I can’t decide whether posting to Twitter from within Second Life is a brilliant hack or a sign that the universe is about to vanish up its own navel.
- The Host with the Most – Geoffrey Grosenbach evaluates a batch of Rails hosting sites that he’s used. Make sure you read through the comments from other folks as well. Makes me happy that I’m doing my own hosting – and I expect I’ll end up on a dedicated host when and if I have a Rails site that looks set to draw substantial traffic.
- RadRails Future – Or lack thereof. A look at the current state of development for this Eclipse-based Rails IDE.
- JRuby In Steel – Java-based Ruby programming inside the Visual Studio IDE. It’s a programming language mashup!
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Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)
My head is all full of business ideas. My to-do list is all full of routine crud. Bah.
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Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)
Yeah, I know some readers are showing these twice. I’m working on it.
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Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)
A couple more things of interest in this new space I’m exploring.
- Rails for Java Developers – The latest from Pragmatic Press. Not being a Java developer myself (and having no ambitions to become one), I’m going to stay far away, but I expect some folks will find it useful. Now, if they publish Rails for .NET Developers I’ll snap up a copy immediately.
- Gyre – “the open source, web-based IDE and debugger for Rails”. Yes, web-based. Looks spiffy, but they caution it’s still very early in the development cycle. (via Ruby Inside)
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Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)
There’s a good-looking set of instructions over at My Preferred Rails Development Environment (via dzone). In it, Yehuda Katz walks through the basic install steps for Eclipse, and then configures it with a set of plugins to speed Rails development.
I’m not going down this road myself at the moment, though. When learning a new language, I prefer to stick fairly close to the bare code and do a fair amount of typing (and even, dare I say it, some cut and paste) as I get the syntax locked into my brain. So right now I’m still mainly working in TextMate . Mileage varies, though, so if you’re a hardcore IDE person it’s nice to see how easy it is to set up a powerful free one for this stuff.
