November 2008
6 posts
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sqlite3-ruby and do_sqlite3 don't play well...
After recently installing merb 1.0.1 with datamapper 0.9.7, it appears that datamapper’s do_sqlite3 gem and the sqlite3-ruby gem (used by Rails) do not play nicely together.
MissingSourceFile: no such file to load -- sqlite3
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `gem_original_require'
The solution was to remove the do_sqlite3 gem until it has been fixed.
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Generating a Rails application with a specific gem...
I know I’ve seen this elsewhere once or twice, but I can never find it when I need it. So, if you’ve got several rails gems installed (like me):
$ gem list rails
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
rails (2.2.2, 2.1.2, 2.1.1, 2.1.0)
And you’re looking to generate a new Rails application from a specific, not-most-recent version, you’ll need to do the following:
$ rails _2.1.1_...
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Slightly better performance in Ruby Liquid 1.9.0
With the not even close to recent release of Liquid 1.9.0, I figured I’d clean the dust off of my template benchmark suite and see how the new code lines up with the past:
Liquid 1.7.0:
user system total real
Attribute Access (Liquid) 0.020000 0.000000 0.020000 ( 0.023265)
Conditional Complex (Liquid) 0.030000 0.000000 ...
rankmaniac
Ok, so forgive me for talking about a link posted on Reddit, but this is slightly amusing (at least, to me..). So, there is a TA at CMU who is giving his students an assignment to get a single web page to rank higher in a Google search than his own, when searching for “rankmaniac”.
So, one smart student, got his entry listed on Digg and Reddit, mainly by explaining the purpose and...
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