Wolfmans Howlings

Ruby 1.8.6 on Openmoko Freerunner

Posted by Jim Morris on 2008-08-10 23:09:54 +0000

I finally got around to building ruby 1.8.6 for my FR. I modified the ruby bitbake files that I found in the Mokomakefile openembedded directory. I am not sure how one actually is meant to do this, as the OE site is down and the docs don't explain it. So I just replaced the 1.8.5 ones with the 1.8.6 ones. I also managed to fix a bug in the 1.8.5 BB recipe that was causing socket to not build.

I also got the ruby dbus library to work, although I don't know what to do with it yet :)

Posted in Openmoko  |  Tags ruby,freerunner  |  3 comments

JEdit Ruby/Rails Snippets or superabbrevs

Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-11-24 19:05:52 +0000

I imported the rest of the Textmate ruby and rails snippets I had to combine them into the one ruby file though.

I have added about 80 new ones to the existing ones by Scott Becker that I found here

Posted in JEdit,Rails,Ruby  |  Tags ruby,rails,jedit,snippets,superabbrevs  |  8 comments

JEdit - Textmate for the rest of us?

Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-11-21 23:20:07 +0000

OK after expounding on how much I like Epsilon as an editor, I finally hit a wall with it. I wanted tabs of the currently open files, and it simply does not provide that facility yet. (I know all modern editors do!). On X11 (IE Linux and OS/X) Epsilon is not really a graphical app, it does open an X11 window, but within it most dialogs and lists (like buffer lists etc) are text, a little like a curses app. The advantage is it opens really fast, and loads huge files pretty fast. The downside is you don't get all those nice windowing facilities like movable pop-up windows, dialogs, trees and tabs!

So after hearing so much about JEdit, I bit the bullet and gave it a whirl. Following the instructions from a number of blogs (too numerous to mention) I installed it on my KUbuntu Linux box, with all the plugins people recommend, and of course the Ruby plugin and SupperAbbrevs (The beta version), so I have my snippets!

Posted in JEdit,Rails,Ruby  |  Tags ruby,rails,jedit,textmate  |  6 comments

Epsilon Programmers Editor

Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-09-30 17:20:15 +0000

I use Lugarus excellent Epsilon Editor for most of my programming editing needs, on Win32 and Linux.

(An exception is for Java programming where I use Eclipse).

Posted in Linux,Rails,Ruby  |  Tags ide,ruby,rails,epsilon,editor  |  1 comments

Using Ruby SVN bindings to get file status

Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-09-04 11:51:35 +0000

If you Google around for information or even some documentation on the ruby SVN bindings you will find plenty of comments that it simply is not documented, so when I wanted to add an SVN status check to a UI I was working on (a project browser window for Rails), I had to "Use the source Luke". However given the bindings are actually mostly automatically generated by SWIG, and the actual details are hidden in a goo of swig generated c code, even that was a challenge.

Eventually I realized that the API was almost identical to the c level subversion API, not surprisingly, and for the most part it works the way you would expect. However I could not find any examples of the client status call, so here it is for anyone else struggling with this issue.

Posted in Ruby,svn  |  Tags ruby,subversion,svn,rubysvn  |  3 comments

Experiences with Komodo Pro and Ruby

Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-08-09 22:39:06 +0000

I got a license for Komodo Pro, (Komodo-Professional-3.5.3-262321-linux-libcpp5-x86) and started trying to use it, I have the latest KUbuntu, with GTK installed so I had no problems installing Komodo as far as libraries and requirements were concerned, however running it had me stumped, I ran into immediate problems (some of my own making I'll admit).

First I saw a stream of errors on the screen, they didn't seem fatal but are annoying, for instance...

Posted in Rails,Ruby  |  Tags komodo,ide,ruby,rails,editors,epsilon  |  1 comments

Capistrano deploy from local repository

Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-05-26 17:08:00 +0000

UPDATE 2006-12-06 I have replaced this with a full blown SCM module that works much better, see this posting

Posted in Rails,Ruby  |  Tags ruby,rails,capistrano,deployment  |  no comments

Howto format ruby code for blogs

Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-05-26 00:14:00 +0000

How do I get that nice formatted ruby code inline?

Well if you are on typo trunk use this...

<typo:code lang="ruby">
   ...ruby code...
</typo:code>

Posted in Ruby  |  Tags ruby,syntax,highlighting  |  10 comments

An Admin page for Rails Role Based Authentication

Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-05-20 13:19:00 +0000

This is an example of an admin page for the Rails Recipes book Role Based Authentication, using a tree control and checkboxes for HABTM.

I used the Silverstripe tree control to render two trees, on the left a list of all Roles and what Rights they have. On the right a tree with all controllers and a checkbox for each action for each controller, under that a set of checkboxes that allow you to apply the selected rights to the selected Roles.

Posted in Rails  |  Tags ruby,rails,rbac  |  10 comments