RMagic Installing RMagick on OS X using MacPorts It took me a while to figure out how to get Fink to install ImageMagick and the RMagic gem for use with attachment_fu and I thought I would share my method....
Testing You can't really follow the the Test Driven Development methodology without writing tests as you develop. While the ROR documentation is fairly complete to get started on building an application, the organization of the documentation (as well as most...
Here are a few additional notes regarding my experiences with Ruby on Rails. Although there is veritable dearth of information on these topics, the difficulty as ever lies in having a single consolidated reference for these issues. At best, documentation...
Here are some notes I've collected as I've worked through developing my application on Rails: PostgreSQL I generally prefer using PostgreSQL for my personal projects. PostgreSQL's pedigree and consistent level of technical superiority means that I'll never have to second...
Having recently upgraded my laptop to a new spanky Hitatchi 7K320, I've had the opportunity to build my Ruby development platform from scratch (and hopefully jettison some unwanted cruft) as well as relearn the in's and out's of Ruby on...
If you are using Ruby in OS X, I suggest NOT managing it through Fink. OS X comes with Ruby pre-installed. All that is required is to update and install a number of gems as per the Apple Developer Instructions....
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