The Love Shack

Tim Dysinger put up a great article the other day about simplifying Rails app deployment. He briefly goes over some of the SSH configuration options that you can use to simplify things, particularly when using ssh-agent. There are a few other things that I use to greatly simplify my life, particularly since I use ssh [...]

So, as of today, I have accepted an offer to work for The Man. Not The Man as in, “The Man is keeping us down”, but as in “You are The Man!”. Except, in this case, it’s more like The Company. Starting soon (hopefully Friday, if everything is ready to go) I’ll be [...]

Now that I’ve gotten over the initial hump of learning enough Ruby (on Rails) to get some productive work done, here’s my list of quite-possibly-essential tools for the job:

Ruby (and Rails, if you’re doing web stuff)
Ruby Interactive Reference – Currently v1.8 (ri1.8 package in Debian)
A good text editor. I prefer Emacs for heavy coding, vim [...]