There’s just too much awesome in Ruby for a clean windows install and development environment.
Tag: software
Ideal Coding: Easy to Pickup Yet Abundant in Function
An Echo through Time, the Minimalist Trend
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.
Reduce Your (team’s) Bug Tax
What’s Bug Tax
The bug tax is a form of friction that increases with the pace of development. For each new feature added, your software gains a number of new bugs. Minimizing the time your team spends bug chasing results in greater productivity, and coincidentally more time to add new features (which introduces more bugs). Good job, you just made yourself more work.
ChromeOS more than a dumb terminal?
Walking down the tracks with Ruby on Rails
this is a follow on post to Pigs may not have wings, but I can Ride the Rails with a flu
Gems Gems Gems
The first barrier to entry to ramping up on RoR (Ruby on Rails) was setting up a build environment. I found several windows friendly developmet options. Netbeans has an install. Steel Ruby has a visual studio variant, Instant Ruby creates an environment you can drop rails projects into (instantly 
), and Ruby Forge has an executable for windows machines. I opted for the Ruby Forge windows exec after trying the other routes to varying degrees of success. Primarily because it almost works (there’s no shuffle! Array function on the RoR Ruby Forge version, or my environment still has problems), it’s command line driven, and I know where the common install/gem folder is.
Satisfy the Interface, Dev/User Tip #1
A reoccuring mistake I see (and make) on a regular basis is failing to utilize existing technology the way it was designed. Of course there are creative innovations built on existing platforms by bootstrapping never before conceived applications. But for every one of these there are thousands of garbage in, garbage out scenarios. It’s probably still a fair trade, but recognizing a failed scenario quickly is a sign of expertise. (more…)