If you ever encountered this when installing JRuby on Ubuntu: Fatal: GCJ (GNU Compiler for Java) is not supported by JRuby. Doing export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre could do the trick, given you’ve installed sun-java6’s packages on your machine. I hope it’ll help. ...
With the previous versions of Rails we have the choice between storing the translations into a YAML file (one per language) and standard Ruby Hashes. Bringing the ActiveRecord backend to light, the I18n gem allows us now to manage all our translations in a regular database. The I18n gem (required to run Rails 3) has been released in late December and is providing all you need to store your translations into a database. A neat thing is the I18n::Backend::Base module, which makes it easy to start writing a new backend in no time. ...
One would easily wonder why in hell someone else would want to do that, but it’s actually often because you are forced to. In this post, I’ll explain how to proceed. ...
Working with Ruby in my day job made me try other exciting things, especially with Google App Engine. Programming in Python is not so bad, but I won’t say I’m having fun remapping my brain onto the weirdosities of the language. Anyhoo… Tonight I wanted to talk to Gemcutter, but not programmatically, I wanted to have it in my GTalk contact list and start having a little chat… The very first step was to fire up a new application in App Engine web panel. Five seconds later, let’s fired up a GVim and create (within a new directory) app.yml and gemtalker.py. ...
So what are Gemcutter webhooks? It’s a way to automatically notice an online app (say gemhooker.appspot.com for instance) about the activities of your favorite (or all) Gemcutter’s gems... As mentioned in the documentation, let’s install gemcutter’s gem if not already done: Now this is done, let’s get it started and fire up a new Python’s powered GAE app (gemhooker.py): If you deploy this app (with appcfg.py update gemhooker-clone-you-just-initialized), you won’t see anything so let’s ask Gemcutter to add a webhook that will notice our app everytime someone pushes changes onto Gemcutter! I’m subscribing to every event of all the existing gems: ...