This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate
This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate. Download 131 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 11.7 MB
Every good project needs a good setup. In this episode, I set up a github repo, create a new rails application, hook in Cucumber and Rspec, write a Cucumber feature, and write the code to make it pass. Download 142 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 59 MB
Loading multiple Ruby Gems can result in runtime errors when an incompatible version of a gem dependency is already loaded as a dependency of another gem.
Gem bundler can also pre-load and cache gems for faster loading.
Having two gems that require different versions of the same dependency can sometimes cause runtime errors. Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche have created an elegant solution in the Gem Bundler. Download 108.8 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 48.8 MB
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