Monthly Archives: October 2008

Handy Tip: Don’t mix One-Click Installer with Cygwin 0

I get lot of bug reports related to this issue, and I’ll like to explain that is not a bug in the software, but a bug in your setup.

Categories: Ruby, Windows

Published:
October 27, 2008 – 12:35 am
Author:
By Luis

Rake make you unhappy (at least on Windows) 1

I found1 that latest releases of Hoe, ParseTree, RubyInline and even RC2 of Merb depend on a updated version of Rake.
The problem is that version 0.8.3 is buggy on Windows from both user and developer point of view.
Until those patches are applied, you can install a patched version using RubyInstaller gem server (gems.rubyinstaller.org)
gem install rake [...]

Categories: Releases, Ruby, Windows

Published:
October 24, 2008 – 5:48 pm
Author:
By Luis

GUAS: Giving Unwanted Advice Series #1 4

Hello everybody, I’ll like to start a new category of post on this site: GUAS.
The subtitle of these series will be how not to be dumbass while being cross-platform friendly.
With this series, I’ll like to bring what I’ve learned using a not so popular platform and how to properly interact with others, without being a [...]

Categories: Advice Series

Published:
October 21, 2008 – 9:15 pm
Author:
By Luis

Experiment: Ruby to Neko, possible? 5

While I was at Rails Summit LA 2008 I got interested again in take a look to NekoVM
While talking with Manuel Aristarán last night, I explained to him the coolness factor of mod_tora, what could be the analog of mod_rails (Phusion Passenger) for Neko, but without the nasty fork()

Categories: Miscelaneas

Published:
October 19, 2008 – 3:47 pm
Author:
By Luis