If you’re using redhat, it’s likely you heavily depend on yum to manage your packages. If not, you probably should. Anyhow, I use yum to manage MySQL installation on my RHEL boxes.

Installing MySQL is as easy as:

Lately I’ve been working with ActiveWorlds 5.0 SDK, wrapped with ffi running on Ruby 1.9.

I tend to use named routes in my link_to, link_to_remote, remote_form_for etc prototype helpers, so that my action paths in the view always conform to the declarations in routes.rb and so it’s expressive.

Migrating a legacy bulletin board system based on Perl/CGI to Rails (2.2.2). I am doing this as BDD with cucumber & rspec goodness and I’ll be posting my travails on BDD pretty soon.

Since passenger has rack support and since dreamhost supports passenger, I went with a forked scanty blogging app as my du jour.

Checking out how well syntax highlighting works

Some ruby

  class Gdakram
    def self.quacks
      "#{self} quack quack"
    end
  end
  Gdakram.quacks

Some gherkin