Tag Archives: Ruby

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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Derek Silvers – unafraid to tell the truth

Posted on 25. Sep, 2007 by forouzani.

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The rails community has been in flamewar shock over the past few days. One of the Ruby on Rails ‘icons’ – CDbaby – has turned around and given rails a major slap in the face. I have nothing more than respect for Derek. That doesn’t mean I agree with his conclusions, but in a time [...]

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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 [...]

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