'programming' Category

• Rails 3.1 with Ruby 1.9.3 on Lion with XCode 4.1

  I was upgrading a web application that I’m working on to use Rails 3.1.3 and Ruby 1.9.3p0 on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.2) with XCode 4.1 and rvm 1.9.2 and found some great resources but that missed a couple of key points. I loved “Read This Before Installing Rails 3.1.3” – near perfect. It even [...]

  December 18th, 2011

• Convert Tab Separated Values (TSV) File to CSV for Import: Ruby 1.8

  I have a few applications that drop Tab Separated Values files – like the Google AdWords Editor. Sometimes, when trying to convert from TSV to CSV, you can get away with changing a tab to a comma. But fairly often, I find that the TSV data isn’t a strict comma separated format, when using only [...]

  September 20th, 2010

• Creating a Rails 2.3.5 production environment on Debian Etch

  Minimum steps required to upgrade Ruby to 1.8.7p248 on Debian Etch. Includes capistrano scripts to help automate.

  January 10th, 2010

• Rails 2.1.0 Fails With Sqlite3 on Debian

  I’ve tried this on OS X (Leopard) having done the update dance recommended by Apple. I’ve done the Debian 4.0 update dance and installed various packages for compilation – including libsqlite3-ruby. After the updates, the rev levels are different and that’s pretty suspicious. Both OS X and Debian have rails 2.1.0, ruby 1.8.5 (Debian) and [...]

  July 28th, 2008