Archive for September, 2010

Fun HTML5 & Javascript Game – Infection

http://www.mattpelham.com/infection/ Is an entertaining HTML5 game, nice work!  Now make it multi-player 

Posted on September 14, 2010 at 8:52 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · One Comment
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How To – Persist Rails or IRB Console Command History After Exit

Sick of not having Ubuntu rails or irb terminal not saving your command history after exiting the console?  Try this little trick to fix it up! Append into your ~/.irbrc the following

Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:46 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 3 Comments
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How To – Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 Server

Install required packages sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev The required packages for installing Ruby Enterprise, and Git thrown in for good measure. Install Ruby Enterprise Download ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02.tar.gz & Install wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71096/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02.tar.gz tar xzvf ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02.tar.gz sudo ./ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02/installer May take a long time to get past the “Generating RI…” bit Also, ignore the  “The following […]

Posted on September 13, 2010 at 5:55 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · One Comment
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