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How to install Ruby & Ruby on Rails (RoR) on Centos

Posted on 31. Oct, 2009 by forouzani.

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To install Ruby and Ruby on Rails on Centos 5, first, we need to add the rubyworks repository to Yum.
Create this file:
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rubyworks.repo
And paste this text into it:
# Link file for RubyWorks yum repository
[rubyworks]
name=RubyWorks
baseurl=http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/redhat/$releasever/RPMS/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/RubyWorks.GPG.key
priority=1
Now that Yum is setup, we can install Ruby on Rails 2.2.2
# yum install ruby ruby-devel ruby-libs ruby-irb ruby-rdoc ruby-mysql
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The perfect web application framework

Posted on 17. Nov, 2008 by forouzani.

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When talking about frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or Symfony, it is often expected that the framework should solve all your problems out of the box. Unfortunately, this is almost never the case. If it were as black and white as this, most web developers would not currently have their job. The issue is [...]

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Ruby on Rails – single threaded?

Posted on 15. Mar, 2007 by forouzani.

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I think one of the biggest problems with RoR – and what I consider to be ‘high barriers to entry’ – is the production environment setup required to launch a complete ruby on rails application. The core of this problem, arises from the fact that the ruby interpreter is single threaded. My general summary that [...]

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Imperfect Rails

Posted on 09. Mar, 2007 by forouzani.

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With all the hype surrounding Rails, there was one thing I hadn’t realized until today: I don’t actually love Rails, I love Ruby! Rails is good, but its the pure object oriented features of Ruby that make development in Rails so easy and fun. Having said that, I must admit that Ruby and Rails do [...]

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Ruby on Steel – Ruby and Rails IDE

Posted on 25. Feb, 2007 by forouzani.

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I recently stumbled across Ruby on Steel, a Visual Studio plugin which allows you to use VS2005 as a Ruby IDE. It has a debugger, syntax color-coding, and more features; most importantly… Intellisense. What? Autocomplete for a dynamically typed language? How can that be?
Well, actually, thats a very good question. The truth is, it cant [...]