If at First you don't Succeed: Retrying Bundler

What do you do when you fail at a task?

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Explain Shell, from your Shell

If you aren’t massively in love with Explain Shell then you’ve not been on the internet today (or at least following the same people I do on twitter). It’s an easy way to see what a unix command does from a web interface. The web interface is great, but wouldn’t it be cool if you could open it from your command line? If someone gave you a command like tar xzvf archive.tar.gz it would be amazing to be able to run:

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Prepare, Do, Test: Make your Technical Writing Shine

Don’t pump and dump information on your readers: build better community and better view numbers by following the Prepare, Do, Test pattern.

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Specify Different Gemfile while using Bundler

Travis has a great feature of being able to install gems using a custom Gemfile path. This lets you do things like test against multiple versions of Rails very easily. A project that uses this is sprockets-rails.

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Maildown: Write your Rails emails in Markdown

maildown - Write your ActionMailer email templates in Markdown, send in html and plain text

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Just Wanted To Say Thanks Again For All The Lessons

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Heroku API Demo

Whipped up a quick demo of the Heroku API using Sinatra and heroku-bouncer (heroku’s oauth rack middleware).

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My wedding with Ruby featured in Style Me Pretty

Maybe not programming related, but stil features plenty of “Ruby”. My wedding was recently featured on style me pretty. Check it out:

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Testing Against Multiple Rails Versions

Upgrading major versions of Rails sucks. I was there from 0.9 to 1.0, all the way to the famed 2 to 3 release, and they were all painful. I have good news though: Rails 4 is right around the corner, and it’s a much cleaner upgrade. While you are getting your app ready for Rails 4 are you bringing the gems you’ve written up to speed? If the answer is “I don’t know”, keep reading - we will cover how to test the gems you’ve written against multiple versions of Rails including Rails 4 release candidate.

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