In Balance

Plain text stories have quite alot of infrastructure that allows you to run the story file. I'm being pretty dumb in understanding this, so I'm going to analyse whats going on in detail so I have a better idea of what is being done and why.

I learnt some important lessons from doing this.

1. If you don't understand a line of code break it down until you do. This will improve your ruby.

2. irb is your friend, use it and script/console to explore code you don't understand

3. Even though it takes time, exploring code is far more productive than skipping over it.

Did 21 minutes at an average heart rate of 158 on Tuesday. This is a personal milestone breaking 20 mins - its a long time since I've been able to do that

Instructions for both Ubuntu and OSX..

See this Textmate Blog post

Do following

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/
git clone git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-tmbundle.git RSpec.tmbundle

Then reload bundles in textmate if its open.

Quick reminder how to do this...

Idea behind this is a working environment that spends more time in the editor, rather than switching to the terminal ...

Looking to manage my projects plugins with GIT, however really struggled (again with something so simple). What I couldn't understand was why the contents of the sub-modules wasn't there when I cloned my central repo. Turns out that you have to run a couple of commands when you do this

git submodule init
git submodule update

Now to find out what happens when you add another module, do you have to redo the init or just call the update with your existing repo

Finally have a good way of working with Capistrano and database.yml. Here's what I did ...

I wanted to make blogging with markdown and textmate as easy as possible. I struggled to do this, though its very easy ...