Hey, check out this interview I did with Peter Cooper of RubyInside:
“Rails allows me to develop and deploy a lot of ideas because it removes barriers from the path. Getting a simple idea to the point where it’s usable in Rails is a matter of hours, so there isn’t a lot of cost/risk in trying things out.”
Check out my latest side-project: www.snapballot.com.
I needed a fast, simple, no-frills way to get polls into my posts on Curbly.com, so I built Snapballot!
I’m still working out some of the bugs. In particular I think there may be some problems rendering the charts in IE. So feedback and bug reports are well-appreciated.
Hope you like it!
Ok, not really, but I was getting a weird error and I bet others are to. Are you seeing this when you try to install a new gem?
ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError)
>> undefined method `refresh’ for #
If so, you may be having the same trouble I was: something buggy in your gem source cache. To fix it, find out where your source cache is (mine was at /opt/local/ruby/gems/1.8/source_cache, yours might be in /opt/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/source_cache or in ~/.gem/source_cache) and delete it. Then you run sudo gem update –system and you should be good to go!
I’m at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport waiting for a connection, thrilled to discover there’s free WiFi throughout the building and ample access to electrical outlets. Those two things (especially the first) are not common at airports, and their availability here will definitely affect my travel plans in the future. If I’m choosing whether to connect through an airport where the WiFi is free, or one where they screw me with ridiculous T-Mobile or day-pass fees, I think the choice is obvious.