Following the book on JRuby I am discovering small differences when trying the examples. After installing activerecord-jdbc gem which is available in version 0.5, the shoplet application fails with Rails 2.0, as soon as you click on the ‘About your application environment’ link.
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on [...]
A friend asked me this question today - and here is my take on it (slightly expanded) answer to his email :-):
Hi Shane
I have purchased the 8 GB because I had no choice - the 16 GB versions were sold out at the Futureshop at the time, and I was too impatient to wait for [...]
I bought the Ola Bini’s eBook on JRuby and started to work through the examples. The installation of the Mongrel gem in JRuby (trunk revision 5341 fails with the following error code:
$ jruby -S gem install -y mongrel
INFO: `gem install -y` is now default and will be removed
INFO: use –ignore-dependencies to install [...]
I was experiencing the occasional weird behaviour on downloading large files in Leopard: the download would stall, but after stopping/restarting (which can be done in Safari and iTunes), the download would continue. It was not very consistent, and I suspected the NAT router or even Rogers - some sites were occasionally having this problem, while [...]
One of the most readable, original blogers out there, writing on software development practice and techniques - Joel Spolsky - published an excellent 3 part Talk at Yale: Part1, Part2 and Part3.
You will find out:
- what two computer science courses were most useful in his university studies
(one that was not really a comp-sci and one [...]
in case you have not noticed - Interface21 aka SpringSource (great name change, btw) runs a blog with lots of hidden treasures inside.
Recent article describes new addition to Spring portfolio which is territory within my “watched space”: enterprise integration. See the blog entry for more.
If you are in corporate space that is keen on “standards”, [...]
The part 1 of the post is here.
— continuing —
So back again - different coffee shop (Starbucks at Carling), freshly charged battery, Grande Latte and no internet connection (which means no distractions from emails and the Web) - here we go again, part 2.
If I should single out one or two technologies that I think [...]
We are recently interviewing quite a lot in anticipation of the great things coming. It is sort of similar task as we did year and something ago, but I enjoy this round much better. This time, rather than “we have to assemble the project team ASAP”, we have the luxury of longer term view and [...]
If the world of physical objects would governed with the same rules as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act does impose on all things digital, scissors would be illegal and you could end up in jail for manufacturing, and maybe even owning or using them. Crazy ? Well, see this presentation and judge for yourself.
This “law” [...]
The CHM files (Microsoft compiled HTML help files) are often used for eBooks. They are readable on OS-X using excellent open source CHMOX application. If you want to get more useful preview in OuickView than the not very helpfull static icon, get this plugin.
Download here
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p…group_id=211847
How to install it: Unzip it, take the proper package for [...]
