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
If you ever need to install Ruby on Rails 1.1.6 then here is the minimal list of gems you need:
Use gem install on them.
Does anyone have a clue as to how to download Edge Rails and package it as a Gem for easy install? Right now I have my svn repo setup with an external link to Edge Rails but ideally I’d like to be able to create a gem from Edge Rails and install that. Any help is appreciated.
Just a quick one before a longer “Rails Continuous Integration” post but if you are trying to get Cerberus to work on Windows then after the gem install you have to set an environment variable yourself. Create one called CERBERUS_HOME with a value of C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\cerberus-0.1.1
Surprisingly Ruby doesn’t come with a built in GUID generator. Thankfully there is the useful uuid project which implements a gem that you can easily install and use to generate GUIDs.
1. gem install uuid
2. require 'uuid'
3. UUID.newGems rock.
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