09 September 2010

The Ruby Reflector

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Robby Russell

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By Robby Russell of Robby on Rails 8 days ago.
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Earlier today... our team at Planet Argon launched a new site for the Ruby on Rails community. If you have a few spare minutes, I'd love it if you'd to head over and read the announcement on RailsDeveloper .

Enjoy!

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On Eddorre.com 1 month ago.
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Ever since I installed Ruby 1.9.2-head with RVM ( Ruby Version Manager) I've become a convert of using it to manage all of my Ruby installs.

Last week I decided to install Ruby Enterprise Edition on my development environment as my default Ruby install. My motivation for this was two-fold; better memory management and a comment by Laurent Sansonetti (one of the authors of MacRuby and works at Apple) on an article written by Robby Russell titled Installing Ruby …

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By Robby Russell of Robby on Rails 4 months ago.
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I love the OhMyZsh community. Let's grow it a little more this next Tuesday.

Join the Zsh revolution here...

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By Mark of Rails Underground 10 months ago.
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Well, gosh - the remaining Rails Underground videos are now available on the SkillsMatter site! This includes: Robby Russell - Launching Ruby on Rails ProjectsDr Nic - JavaScript Unit Tests Geoffrey Grosenbach - Bringing the Web to Your Desktop with MacRuby Clemens Kofler - Rails I18n From The Trenches Brendan G Lim - Mobilize Your Rails Application Eleanor McHugh - The Ruby Guide to *nix Plumbing Lindsay Holmwood - Behaviour driven monitoring with cucumber-nagios …

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On Eddorre.com 10 months ago.
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…‘x_'. This is a convention that we use at Planet Argon . Robby Russell originally blogged about this in the article Designers, Developers, and the x_ Factor <div id="x_slider" style="font-size:62.5%; width:350px;"></div>

I follow the slider div another div for the high and low prices. <div> <p>Showing all stocks between <span id="x_low_selected"><%= @price_range.first %></span> and <span …

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By Geoffrey of McKinney Station over 1 year ago.
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…environment. Fortunately, this was very easy with the Ruby Ghost gem found via Robby Russell's Get to know a gem: Ghost . sudo ghost add iphone.localhost.com

We needed to add the .com so that the call to the request.subdomains will pick out the iphone portion.

iUI Framework

After downloading the iUI framework from the project site , I moved everything into its rightful place. public - stylesheets - iui.css - javascripts - iui.js - images …

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By Robby Russell of Robby on Rails 7 months ago.
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Just a quick update to let you know that I'll be moving more of my business-related topics to the Planet Argon Blog . I invite you to subscribe to that feed as well. :-)

p.s. We just published Episode 4 of the Planet Argon Podcast , which was on the topic of Hiring designers.

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By Robby Russell of Robby on Rails 7 months ago.
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Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it's the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install. In this case, I'm actually getting a MacBook setup for a new employee with Snow Leopard.

Over the years, I've evolved these following steps and they've helped our team maintain a consistent and stable envirnment for Ruby on Rails development. I know that there are a few other ways to approaching this and I'm …

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By Robby Russell of Robby on Rails 9 months ago.
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Earlier this evening, I accepted a pull-request for theme number 18, which is now included in Oh My Zsh . To celebrate, I've updated the themes wiki page with fresh screenshots.

Here is a sampling of some of the themes that you can use out of the box with Oh My Zsh .

Oh My Zsh is much more than a collection of themes for your zsh config. It's a way of life 1 .

Also, be sure to follow ohmyzsh on twitter now!

1 well.. at least while you're in the terminal. ;-)

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By Robby Russell of Robby on Rails 9 months ago.
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Will refrain from any political commentary, but was notified by some friends that the GOP was using the source code for RubyURL for their new URL shortening site ( gop.am ).

To celebrate, I decided to daisy chain a few rubyurl-based sites together and came up with:

http://rubyurl.com/hj6l

Enjoy!

As always, you can fork/clone here

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