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Installing Ruby on Ubuntu
These are my experiences of installing Ruby on Ubuntu. I didn’t install the Ubuntu package but went with the source on the Ruby On Rails website. Everything worked fine out of the box, just downloaded the files and followed their instructions (basically the following, in this order.)
Download ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz and rubygems-0.9.0.tgz from the links on http://www.rubyonrails.org/down
Ruby
tar xzf ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz cd ruby-1.8.4 ./configure make make test sudo make install
RubyGems
tar xvf rubygems-0.9.0.tgz cd rubygems sudo ruby setup.rb
Rails
sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
Test installation
rails railstest/ cd railstest/ ruby script/server Point your browser at http://127.0.0.1:3000
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Blogging and the work--life balance
There is a new “blogging initiative” at work (well I think it’s new, I’m not there long myself). The company line seems to be that blogging is good for both the employer and the employee. The company has offered to setup blog hosting on their servers. It seems like a reasonable idea, but, I’m not convinced that the company website needs to be associated with the latest news at the local dog show, cinema, or companies alluding to the discovery perpetual motion machines. I’m equally unconvinced that local movie-goers, dog-lovers, or mad scientists are interested in advances in the state-of-the-art in telecommunications software and systems.
So I would suggest that personal blogs are good for subjects that the blogger is interested in, and that work blogs are useful for dissemenating project related info on a per project basis. In addition, seperate work CV pages can be used for “these are our incredibly smart employees” and “why you should put money into our project” pages. And because of hypertext links (which are fundanemtal to “the web”) all of these can be associated, while keeping their individual identies. I’m interested in what other people think about this.
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Delays are in the mind of the beholder
Wow! it’s been a while since the last post. Looks like August never happened. I must at least think about blogging a bit more often.
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Videos of the talks from RailsConf 2006.
Paul Watson informs that videos of the talks from RailsConf 2006 are available at http://blog.scribestudio.com/pages/rails/
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Dave Johnson: Beyond Blogging: Understanding feeds and publishing protocols
Mícheál Ó Foghlú links to this PDF slideset. I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds interesting.
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