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Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:01:32 -0000

Hey HcH, yes it’s the same. Ubuntu running in a VM should be no different to the usual Ubuntu installation.

Re: Ryan Bigg - Rails 5 in Action

Ryan Bigg — Sun, 21 May 2017 21:30:09 -0000

Thanks for your support Fritz :) I'm glad that I was able to help you out.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 21:26:27 -0000

Yeah I think this was due to a Jekyll upgrade I did. There was a missing nginx rule for rewriting the paths with the trailing slash and now that it exists all the links should be working again. Thanks very much for letting me know about it!

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 17:05:01 -0000

Which old links are they?

Re: Building a Casino in Elixir

Ryan Bigg — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:04:56 -0000

You have a styling issue just after "To accept this message we need to use the handle_info function:"

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Mac OS X, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby and You

Ryan Bigg — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 21:11:49 -0000

Opening a new terminal should make it work.

Re: Subdomains With Phoenix

Ryan Bigg — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:02:34 -0000

It appears you need to add this line to web.ex, underneath import Twist.Router.Helpers.

import Twist.SubdomainRouter.Helpers, except: [static_path: 2]

You need to not import the static_path function because it's already imported by the original Twist.Router.Helpers.

Re: Subdomains With Phoenix

Ryan Bigg — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:51:17 -0000

Doing `mix phoenix.routes Twist.SubdomainRouter` shows a `book_path` helper being available, but when I try to use it in the view with `book_path(@conn, :show, book.permalink)` it shows: undefined function book_path/3. Why is that?

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:34:21 -0000

Ok, that makes sense.

Thanks for buying Rails 4 in Action. I hope you enjoy it!

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 00:47:44 -0000

First of all: please stop spamming comments on my blog. This is now the 4th time you've posted about it.

Secondly: it looks like you're trying to execute a file called "~/.ruby-2.3.0" which is not what the guide says to do at all. It says to create a file called ~/.ruby-version and put a single line in it called "ruby-2.3.0"

Now that you have the answer, I hope that you will stop spamming my blog comments and causing a lot of emails to arrive.

Thanks.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:13:30 -0000

You spelled "ruby-install" wrong. You spelled it as "ruby-intsall", where it should be "ruby-install".

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Add header to Rack::Test request

Ryan Bigg — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:46:11 -0000

yes

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:23:23 -0000

It adds that content to either your .bashrc or .zshrc depending on what shell you're using

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:38:18 -0000

Seems like you didn't create the `~/.ruby-version` file or possibly didn't including the auto switching script.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Programming Phoenix: Halfway Review

Ryan Bigg — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:21:15 -0000

Hey Michel,

I think it'll work under the same principles. The foreign key scoping method will work in any framework, and the emphasis that I have in my book about doing it that way is that you just need to really stringently test your application to make sure data isn't leaking across different accounts.

Phoenix is indeed quite fast. I rewrote the Rails app that ran logs.ryanbigg.com into a Phoenix app and the Phoenix app serves requests 13x faster than its Rails friend. I don't think it's quite time to move to Phoenix though: there's a lot more community support (gems, documentation and a greater following) in Rails than in Phoenix. Give it a year and that'll change quite drastically. I do hope that I get to use some more Phoenix in my day-to-day jobs in the future.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - My self-publishing success story

Ryan Bigg — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:54:31 -0000

No, Manning will never fix their systems. They are too attached to them as they have books written that work with those systems. To change the systems would require them changing the books, and they believe it too much effort. They've been promising to rewrite the tools for _five_ years now. It won't happen.

Going self-publishing 100% was the best thing I ever did. Complete control over the production process and the speed at which my books get out to the readers.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Multitenancy with Rails

Ryan Bigg — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:25:00 -0000

I believe it'll work with Heroku. Assuming you're pointing a domain at Heroku (like example.com) and then accessing those subdomains as (sub1.example.com).

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Programming Phoenix: Halfway Review

Ryan Bigg — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:38:11 -0000

Ha, thanks :) It's a beta book, so it's going to have some problems. I just wanted to outline what I thought those problems were. Even with those problems it was still a good book and I enjoyed it.

MTWR will be receiving an update at the end of this week or next week, depending on how much work I'm able to do on it.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby, Rails and You

Ryan Bigg — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:36:47 -0000

Hey Jess, chruby is used for switching between Ruby versions. We install it in this guide so that it automatically switches into the proper Ruby version whenever you open a new terminal.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Open source work

Ryan Bigg — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:43:25 -0000

Thanks dude! :)

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Open source work

Ryan Bigg — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:37:02 -0000

Hey Paul. I'm so sorry that you got trapped writing for Manning just like I did. I encourage you to go the self-publishing route for future books that you write for reasons that I outline in my other blog post: http://ryanbigg.com/2015/08....

I'm sure that if we were supported by the companies that we worked for to maintain OSS for "the greater good", it'd be a different story. But we're not, and so we need to make our own time. The great thing about OSS is that you can release code and then other people can take that and run with it. I hope that's what this new maintainer has done for you.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Active Record, change_column and scales

Ryan Bigg — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 22:03:09 -0000

Correct, that is what I would do now that I know those methods exist. Before I came across this problem I had no idea that they existed.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Mac OS X, Ruby, ruby-install, chruby and You

Ryan Bigg — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 03:10:22 -0000

Yes, just use Bundler for that.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Open source work

Ryan Bigg — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 06:35:08 -0000

This idea is crazy and I don't mean in a good way.

Where does the money come from in the beginning? Do you expect companies are just going to open their chequebooks for open source software just because I have a name for maintaining large OSS projects before? Are you expecting them to do this out of the kindness of their hearts? That there's some kind of ... I dunno, karma(?) that wills them to contribute back? Sorry to break it to you, but there isn't. I could've asked for donations on my open source projects and I would've been lucky to make double figures (yes, that does mean less than $100, and probably towards the lower end of that) a month for double-figure hours of work.

Who gets to be on this team of volunteers? Who decides what they work on? What happens if a company funding it pulls their funding? What happens if there's perceived bias from the volunteers towards a particular company's interests?

What you're thinking of there is something that has been thought of many times before. It's just not something that is done. Companies have historically not, are current not and will not contribute to open source, even though they build their companies on many, many different open source projects.

Re: Blog of Ryan Bigg - Open source work

Ryan Bigg — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:47:30 -0000

Hey Joss,

All of the latter things you said are true. It was a great experience. I learned a lot because I was able to experiment in OSS land more than I ever could at a job. OSS was my code playground and it was fun while it lasted. It helped my career because I got to practice my code in OSS-land, and that made me a better coder. Now I write code and people pay me six-figures-worth-of money for it.

Helping out on the Rails Guides all that time ago ('08) allowed me to become a better writer. Now I write books and people pay me money for it. Not as much as the code, for if that were the case then I wouldn't need the coding job. Still, it's money coming in which helps me pay the electricity and... I think it's the water bill... each quarter.

As for networking, it definitely allowed me to make a name for myself as "the guy who wrote those gems we use". I also have a reputation for helping out on Stack Overflow (which I quietly "quit" about 10 months ago for other reasons) and on IRC. Oh, and there's that whole Spree thing too.

Overall, maintaining open source for free is nothing something that is sustainable long term as I said and that's why I quit. My time is too valuable to me to be spending it fixing other people's problems for free.

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As for people who are new to OSS:

I very strongly recommend any developers to contribute back to other people's open source projects. If you use a gem at work, attempt to go through its issues list and see if there's something that you could fix. It might be as simple as adding more documentation to the gem, or even _any_ documentation, as some gems are. A lot of the time, these gems are maintained by a single person. That's a single point of failure and they cop every bit of criticism. They're (probably) feeling like how I felt this weekend. By spending some of your own time helping out, you can help them and that helps us all.

Thanks for the kind words!