Archive for October, 2009
Ruby Version Manager
Oct 23rd
I’ve been meaning to start using ruby1.9 but always stuck at maintaining codes in production that depends on Ruby1.8.6. Fortunately, there’s this thing called Ruby Version Manager where you easily change between different rails version. I have nothing but praise for the guys who made life easier for us programmers to do our job better & faster with RVM.
The only thing is you have to install your gems for each ruby version. It does make sense because there are quite a few gems that depends on different built. Installing gems are not that hard imho. So no issue there.
Now I can change between different ruby version as easy as this:
$ rvm 1.9.1 # For ruby 1.9.1
$ rvm 1.8.7
What’s excellent about this is the ruby version is sandbox in just that one terminal you’re using. It doesn’t interferes with your already *original ruby installation. * rvm calls is your ruby system. To revert back to your original ruby installation just do
$ rvm system
Or if you want to set a default ruby throughout your system. You can simply do so like this:
$ rvm 1.9.1 –default
If you haven’t tried it before, go try it. Don’t worry, it won’t mess up anything on your current ruby system
Authlogic is Awesome
Oct 22nd
Have been tinkering around with authlogic. The most I love about is its out-of-the-box functionality. I used to wrestle with restful_authentication to get certain things that I need. Not in anyway that I’m bashing it but seeing how easy authlogic I couldn’t believe why I didn’t use it sooner.
I like it so much that I even made a rails template base on authlogic. This rails template has the usual basic signup/login/logout and I threw in some cucumber steps & stories in it. Here it is in flesh & bytes http://github.com/fadhlirahim/myrails-template/blob/master/template_authlogic.rb
