A handy tip for getting documentation on your Ruby gems is to use gem_server which fires off a local server which you can access on http://127.0.0.1:8808. Very handy. Another way is to run gem environment gemdir to get your gem install dir, append doc onto the end and the gem documents are all in there e.g. /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc
Barcamp Schedule
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BarCamp South East (of Ireland) happened this past Saturday and it seemed like a success. A fair number of people turned up, most speakers did their bit and there was a good buzz about the place. Well done to Tom and Keith for setting it all up. The juggling balls, and juggling master, was a great idea.
My talk, Ruby on Rails: Outside of its comfort zone, didn’t go down too well. The problem was that out of the 7 people listening to me only 1 had done any serious amount of Ruby on Rails. I had to scale it way back and even then it was too technical. Hopefully those who listened got the general idea though that Ruby on Rails works fine outside of its defaults (e.g. Oracle databases, non-Rails database naming standards, non-Apache/Linux hosting etc.) It also didn’t help that most of the technical people at the BarCamp were tied up at the WordPress.com talk which ran overtime. Next time I’ll pick a less technical topic.
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