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Comment on 'In Praise of Rails Machine' by Scott Johnson

2010-07-28T19:55:51Z

Hi Xdmx,

EngineYard is very, very cloud centric. To my understanding all of their hosting options are now done via S3. That’s fine if you believe in the cloud for general purposing hosting—but I don’t. I like cloud hosting just fine for things like images but for a whole web presence, I think dedicated resources are much better.

Scott

Comment on 'In Praise of Rails Machine' by xdmx

2010-07-28T08:38:08Z

You said that you’re more impressed with rails machine instead of others.

May I ask you what you don’t like of engine yard? (i’m planning to move to them from my current vps)

Comment on 'In Praise of Rails Machine' by Matt Todd

2010-07-28T01:50:55Z

The RailsMachine folks are all pro! We’ve hosted with them for various projects as well and couldn’t recommend them enough.

Comment on 'Automatic Color Coding for script/console and irb' by Jones Lee

2010-07-01T11:45:17Z

I follow but failed to make it work under RVM. Any idea?

Comment on 'Automatic Color Coding for script/console and irb' by Jay Sanders

2010-06-27T00:16:25Z

Fantastic post! When I used to work with php, I wrote my own diagnostics class which would work like pretty print, but would be much more readable and easier to review. I missed this method very much when I switched to Ruby many years ago, and have never been satisfied with pretty print. It does make it easier to read, but is still a bit of a mess.

awesome_print is just what the doctor ordered, and your instructions on making it the default rendering tool within irb are extra spicy! Now I will always have awesome output and never know the difference!

One important note. When I first tried to use your script, it triggered the LoadError saying: “ap gem not found. Try typing ‘gem install awesome_print’ to get super-fancy output.” just like you designed it. I referenced the awesome_print GitHub page and found that they included RubyGems before including ap in their script. I combined the two and the results are perfect!

Right after begin and before the require “ap”, insert the RubyGems require:

require “rubygems” require “ap”

Thanks again for making me aware of this awesome gem!!

Comment on 'Automatic Color Coding for script/console and irb' by Stéphan K.

2010-06-26T22:58:23Z

Oh wow, that adds some serious style to my IRB console! Thanks for that, and do pat your friend on the shoulder.

Comment on 'ActiveRecord vs. Core Data' by Christian Romney

2010-05-10T20:17:55Z

Not really a fair comparison since you’re programming at two different levels of abstraction. ActiveRecord does essentially the same thing your CoreData code is doing for you under the covers. What you need is an abstraction over CoreData.

Comment on 'Fun with RMagick' by Jared

2009-06-23T13:34:55Z

Ah, good catch on the Image.read line. I had adapted this from a script that processed a directory instead of a single file, I must have overlooked the file load line.

I think the font_family call may be platform dependent. On my Mac, the Helvetica family is installed, so that works for me.

Comment on 'Fun with RMagick' by IceskYsl

2009-06-22T02:39:54Z

thanks,and i change some to this. 1. picture = Magick::Image.read(ARGV⁰) => picture = Magick::Image.read(ARGV⁰)[0]

2. Helvetica is not copyright.font_family(‘Helvetica’) copyright.font_family(‘arial’)

Comment on 'How I Know the New MacBook Pro is a Business Computer...' by Lars Ecksson

2008-10-16T22:26:50Z

and you find that you’re impressed by it’s slimmer size, or it’s lighter weight, remember that it cost you an undisclosed $160 premium to achieve.

Also, that slimness not quite so fancy with all those extra cords and adapters

Comment on 'How I Know the New MacBook Pro is a Business Computer...' by Keith Medlin

2008-10-16T15:37:24Z

I just wish they’d make a dongle that had different heads you could buy on the cheap, or purchase as a kit.

Comment on 'How I Know the New MacBook Pro is a Business Computer...' by Geoffrey Grosenbach

2008-10-15T01:27:39Z

It’s quite a dilemma. Either include a dongle that goes unused by most people, or don’t include it and charge extra.

I think the Apple Remote was pretty worthless, but was included with many machines in the past. Still, connecting to an external monitor seems very basic to me.

If I remember correctly, the original MacBook Air included a DVI adapter at no extra charge.

Comment on 'Confused by iTunes 8' by Kajigga

2008-09-12T02:30:18Z

I noticed that too. It has me a little concerned that they are inching down a dark path without even knowing it.

Comment on 'Another Passenger on the mod_rails' by Luke Hartman

2008-04-30T03:42:52Z

I appreciate the post and you sharing your experiences. I’m looking at diving more into Rails but the tweaking you talked about in the earlier attempts turned me off. Hopefully Passenger will continue to make deployment easy.

Comment on 'Another Passenger on the mod_rails' by Sebastian

2008-04-26T16:33:57Z

Good post! Thanks :)