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{ Monthly Archives } February 2007

Finally a gem release of ruby-opengl

Just wanted to let folks know that I’ve finally figured out how to get the build system in place for ruby-opengl to: Gemify itself Build native extensions during Gem installation using mkrf Which means (I hope) that there should be an easier way to get OpenGL working with Ruby. Currently it should support installing in […]

Messages like Warning: require_gem is obsolete. Use gem instead. driving you nuts?

If you’re seeing tons of those messages like I’ve been and wondering what in the world that is all about. After Googling around I finally found a definitive answer on Jason Young’s Blog what it was all about. What is it Since rubygems 0.9.0 the command require_gem has been deprecated in favor of just plain […]

Optimized for more memory than yesterday’s big iron servers

Here’s something I never want my Operating System to be asking of me users should consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista performance

Migrating instiki from one database type to another

The Rant Instiki is one of the premier wikis for Ruby on Rails which is another way of saying the other rails-based solutions don’t look that great so far from what I’ve seen. Here is an except from the instiki website: 1. Download 2. Run “instiki” with Ruby 1.8.4 or greater. (on windows, that’s instiki.cmd) […]