Linux Text Editor for Ruby and Rails

I’ve been struggling to find a text editor for developing in Linux. I went through jEdit, gedit, emacs, vi, and even NetBeans (I know, it’s an IDE). None of them really could really help me with my addiction to TextMate on Mac. I even modified gedit to look like TextMate, but that really didn’t help much. I would always go back to vi/vim.

This time around, I finally settled on geany. You can get this wonderful editor at http://geany.uvena.de and if you’re using Ubuntu, get the latest at the link provided the site. With its file browser plugin, it gives me somewhat similar experience as TextMate.

I highly recommend this editor if you’re frustrated with current text editor.

August 12, 2008 | Filed Under Rant

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Mentoring Sessions Coming!

I blogged about getting a personal mentor before. Well, now you guys will get the opportunity to listen on some of it now that Ben has graciously agreed to let me post our sessions. I won’t be posting the entire session since the sessions contain our personal conversations.

The only issue that I need to resolve is the Skype audio issue with Screenflow. It apparently does not record Ben’s voice. I’ve been exchanging emails back and forth with Vara Software, and hopefully it gets resolved soon. If not, I’ll have to bite the bullet and go back to SnapzPro. If anyone knows how to resolve this issue, please shoot me an email at joon at this domain. I’m using a USB headset and the audio setting is at Skype so it doesn’t change my default system settings. And yes, I would like to keep it that way!

August 1, 2008 | Filed Under News, Tutorial, Video

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Pardon The Interruption

I just moved this blog to a new server and some of you might have experienced outage. Please accept my apology as this won’t happen again, at least for a year…;)

July 22, 2008 | Filed Under News

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iPhone App + Rails App

I think I mentioned that I was seriously thought about becoming the independent app developer on Cocoa several years ago… Well, I’ve been busy catching up on Obj-C 2.0 and iPhone SDK now that Apple got my money. You must be thinking, “hey, this blog is about Ruby and Rails, isn’t it?”

I’m actually developing an app for iPhone to support the web app I’m currently working on. I saw that writing an iPhone companion app actually promotes the main web app. For example, I had no idea what Evernote and Jotter was. I found these sites after I looked at their iPhone app. What a great way to promote a site!

July 16, 2008 | Filed Under Rant

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Rails Job 09July2008

Please contact Steve. He’s one of the good ones. Of course, there’s always my buddy Brian at www.mirrorplacement.com.

I am an IT recruiter looking for a Ruby on Rails Project lead
working with a fortune 50 Co in NYC on the Avenue of the Americas
Job pays $90K +
Please call me if you are interested
973-739-1900

Steve Conti
Associated Global Services
900 Lanidex Plaza Parsippany, NJ
(973) 739-1900 office, (201) 873-7461 cell.

http://www.agsinternational.biz

July 9, 2008 | Filed Under Rant

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Mac OS 10.5.4 Update Breaks My App!

It appears that Mac OS 10.5.4 update I did on my machines breaks a Rails app that I’m working on. Granted, it’s still on Rails 1.2.3 and uses all kinds of experiments (I didn’t do it, not most of it anyways), this shouldn’t be happening. I isolated the problem to XML (ReXML) and should be resolved once I move to libxml. I know, what was I thinking, I should’ve done that months ago. It’s the price of laziness I guess.

July 1, 2008 | Filed Under Rant

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Ruby Vulnerability Fixed In Ubuntu Hardy Heron

It appears that Ubuntu guys pushed the patch to fix the security vulnerability we’re all going crazy over. I just applied the patch this morning and below is the result of my test for Ruby array.

irb(main):001:0> a = []
=> []
irb(main):002:0> a[0x7fffffff] = "A"
IndexError: index 2147483647 too big
from (irb):2:in `[]='
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>

Rather than crashing, it just throws IndexError exception. After a short testing, it appears that nothing’s breaking. Very nicely done.

June 27, 2008 | Filed Under News

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