Category Archives: Miscelaneas

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 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

Lot of small but rewarding news 2

For the ones that cares: I’m still alive.
I have so cool news to everybody:
MySQL/Ruby support
As I announced 2 months ago, new releases of MySQL gem are going to be build from my repository at GitHub
Please note: only report bugs related to the gem itself, more likely the binary issues. Other type of bugs will be [...]

Categories: Miscelaneas, Releases, Ruby, Windows

Published:
October 6, 2009 – 7:54 pm
Author:
By Luis