I just changed jobs and am now a Rails developer at tolingo.com, which is an online translation broker. When I started out working on my new desk, I had to setup my iMac development environment. There are tons of articles of how to compile/install/run stuff like MySQL, to get you started on OS X, but […]
Tag: OS X
Using the Redis addon on Heroku
I am always playing around with new addons offered by Heroku. My latest discovery was the Redis addon that is provided by Redistogo. The addon is probably in private beta (docs are still on beta), but since they put up a link to it on their site, I managed to install it to my personal […]
Mongo Ruby Driver, Mongoid and MongoMapper
============================================================= ============================================================= Update Aug. 2010 On Whyday, I created a live demo of the examples, that is running on Heroku. =========================================================== =========================================================== I am constantly looking around for different storage mechanisms on Heroku that can be used for caching 3rd party data. A recent update of their platform offered an MongoDB addon to access the […]
Creating a Maven webapp from scratch
Doing a little research for an article about log4j configuration in Java webapps, I decided to use Maven as a sidekick. I already pointed out earlier that my favourite build tool is buildr. The reason I chose Maven is that it has archetypes and that there is a deprecated guide for using such an archetype […]
(X)Ruby on the Mac
=============================================================== =============================================================== Update Aug. 2010 The RVM installer should be prefered over installation via gem: bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head ) =============================================================== =============================================================== If you are a Mac user and a Ruby developer you probably ran into issues with custom Ruby installations and had troubles with Gems like these: How to fix that Rubygems mess […]