Newsflash July 17th, 2008
Playing catchup a bit, things have been hectic since the California move. Seems about time for a quick updated.
I am now a software engineer for Plinky, Inc. I am pretty excited about the position and what we are working on, but I can't say much more than that at present.
Unfortunately, for now, feedish has been put on the back burner while I reevaluate my approach.
Fortunately, I've become the de facto maintainer of the couchdb adapter for the DataMapper Ruby ORM. There is still plenty of work left there, but I'm pleased to be making advances quite regularly.
I have a couple other projects in mind/in the works, but nothing I can really show at the moment. Just thought is was about time to make a 'proof of life' post.
googleajax May 25th, 2008
So I got to reading about the Google AJAX apis the other day. It all started with the Feed API and degenerated from there. Over last weekend I put together a Ruby wrapper for the apis so that I could play with their rest interfaces. At the end of the day it supports feeds, search, and translation.
Grab it with:
sudo gem install googleajax
ruby gem sources June 7th, 2007
I recently realized that rubygems doesn't update itself of its own accord. Which is to say:
gem update
Updates installed gems and not the gem system itself. To do that you need:
gem update --system
Which leads me to what was driving me crazy(a recurring theme?), which may be unrelated to updating...
Gem sources. I added the gem repository from rubyonrails.com to try the capistrano 2.0 preview. Cap 2 works fine, but I didn't intend to update rails to newer-than-1.2. I tried removing the rubyonrails gem repository from the list (see: gem help sources), but I was still getting newer versions...
Thankfully the explanation is simple. When I install gems I use sudo. The root user has a different source list from other users.
So if you normally type:
sudo gem install some_gem_name
You will also want to type:
sudo gem sources remove some_gem_repository_url
Easy to overlook, I think I got lucky figuring it out. Hope others have better luck, go go googlebot etc.
Slash and Burn May 9th, 2007
Time to rebuild this from the ruins.
My mind wanders and I ramble, but it seems like I have been gaining more clarity and focus.
I love working with Ruby on Rails. So it seems only fitting to post about my work with it here.
Thats the plan, we'll see how I do.