If your like me, you are constantly trying to keep up with the latest changes in the rails world. One of those changes is moving from Subversion as a version control system to GIT. One of the Macs I work on is still running Tiger so I needed a quick guide on getting GIT up and running. You can install GIT using mac ports you can;

sudo port install git-core +svn +doc

but it is recommend to compile your own from source so you get the latest version. Check out this guide to installing GIT on OS X Tiger.

Toolman Tim has a guide on how to setup a new rails app with GIT.

Wow, I have to say that this is a pretty cool deal. Sitepoint is giving away for the next 60 days a FREE, that’s right absolutely free copy of Patrick Lenz Ruby on Rails Web Applications book.

Patrick has been in the web development business for year and is the CEO of development firm limited-overhead.

So is there a catch with the book being free?  Well no but you will have to complete a form to add your email address so you can be sent a link for the book.  If you don’t like being subscribed, you can always easily unsubscribe later.

Well worth the download.  Go get em cause time is ticking!

Come across a post at the railsforum which showed a nice looking ruby on rails editor for Windows. e-texteditor uses the well known textmate bundles so you can start using the range of bundle already contributed by the rails community on textmate.e-texteditor costs just $34.95 and although I haven’t used it yet it doesn’t seem pretty neat plus there is a 30 day trial. Time to download the evaluation version. Check out the screencast at www.e-texteditor.com