http://www.mjwall.com Just a guy and his computer Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:41:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I really love cruisecontrol.rb in a team environment.  The ability to run tests against every commit is great, and it is such fun being the "build police". Excuse me sir, can I see your license to commit please? We can have some fun with that one. This license expired just before the dotcom ... http://www.mjwall.com/2008/08/cruisecontrolrb-git-and-rails-21/ What is the best way to support multiple versions of ruby? Some options: Multiruby looks like it may do what I want. I already have it installed, because I am autotest-addicted (first coined by Dr Nic. Michael Greenly posted this, which would work since I am running ubuntu. A buddy recommended GNU Stow. I ... http://www.mjwall.com/2008/08/multiple-versions-of-ruby-with-stow/ Alright, I give. Rails on shared hosting really sucks. I've seen reports of success with Phusion Passenger, but my host doesn't support it yet. I wrote about my some of this issues I have had. So welcome to wordpress. Same theme, mostly, with less crashes. ... http://www.mjwall.com/2008/07/moving-to-wordpress/ Since my last post, I have been looking more and more at Merb. Just some random notes Looks like Merb 0.9.2 got some fcgi love. That is what I want to try to replace rails on my shared host. Get on IRC if you need help – irc.freenode.net#merb. Really, IRC. If ... http://www.mjwall.com/2008/04/merb-notes/ One more quick post. Last week I purchased an inexpensive (shall I say cheap) laptop from WalMart. It is a Toshiba A215-S5808. I booted once in Vista to burn a cd and them immediately installed Ubuntu 7.10. Almost all my hardware was recognized, except the wireless ... http://www.mjwall.com/2008/03/new-laptop/ It has taken me almost 2 months to put this post together, but at the time, DHH’s article on shared hosting support for Rail was very timely. I use shared hosting to run this blog and have had some headaches. This is another great post on the subject. ... http://www.mjwall.com/2008/03/rails-shared-hosting-and-a-little-merb/ I do almost all my development using vim/gvim. Vim is great. Yes, I have tried IDEs, and will use Eclipse when doing some java work. Ever since I started developing in Rails though, it has been me and vim. I see lots of posts with rails code. ... http://www.mjwall.com/2008/01/vim-and-rails/ Now that I have used typo for a couple of days now, I realized it is missing page stats. Maybe it is vanity, but if I am going to spend time posting information, I want to know when someone is looking at it. So I looked on the ... http://www.mjwall.com/2008/01/typo-doesnt-have-stats/ Congratulations to the Washington Redskins as they finish the season with a bang and make it into the playoffs. It has been an especially emotional season for us die hard and the wanna be fans alike. Good luck in the post season. R.I.P. #21 Photo from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/12/30/PH2007123002197.html http://www.mjwall.com/2007/12/hail-to-the-redskins/ Well, nothing like waiting until the last minute. My personal weblog has been down for over a year. One of my 2007 new year resolutions was get it back up. Here goes. Over the past year or so, I have been doing mostly Ruby on Rails work, both ... http://www.mjwall.com/2007/12/new-site/