Monthly Archives: December 2009

To require or not require rubygems in your applications or libraries 1

NOTE Undusting this post as better response to a conversation in Tweeter, with tenderlove and nickseiger

Categories: Miscelaneas, Ruby

Published:
December 30, 2009 – 7:57 pm
Author:
By Luis

win32console 1.3.0 prerelease 4

I mentioned in previous post that I was working in a updated version of win32console.
So, just pushed to Gemcutter the prerelease version (_beta1_) so you guys can test with your current Cucumber/RSpec scenarios.
How to install prerelease versions?
All the RubyGems 1.3.x series sport the feature to prerelease gem installations. I recommend update to RubyGems 1.3.5 first [...]

Categories: Releases, Ruby, Windows

Published:
December 29, 2009 – 8:16 pm
Author:
By Luis

win32console upcoming changes and feedback 8

For the ones not aware of, win32console (originally here, gemified here) is a project that provides ANSI coloring for Windows.
Yeah, Windows doesn’t do ANSI coloring like any POSIX terminal, and it has it’s own API with extended control of the console functionality.

Categories: Miscelaneas, Ruby, Windows

Published:
December 17, 2009 – 1:23 am
Author:
By Luis

rake-compiler: safe list of Ruby versions that can be cross-compiled 0

Seems that I’m going to suffer a series of bug reports in the upcoming weeks due continious changes between patchlevels of Ruby.
To give some background, for the fresh ones just arriving to the blog. rake-compiler provides, besides C/Java extension standardization structure, the ability to cross-compile versions of Ruby to allow developers on Linux/OSX build and [...]

Categories: Miscelaneas, Ruby

Published:
December 16, 2009 – 3:00 am
Author:
By Luis