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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.

Ruby on Rails

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!

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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

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As part of a new rails site I’m working on, I found that I needed to install Rmagic to provide image manipulation in my app. So what I found was that it was going to as easy as installing the rmagick gem.

So I fired up my terminal and typed

sudo gem install rmagick

Whoops!!! Error time!

Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
configure: error: Can't install RMagick. Can't find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program.

ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.7 for inspection.

So off I went to find a solution to this problem and kill a couple of hours of free time.

I found an post by Paul Hepworth on installing Rmagick on OSX but I didn’t have macports installed so off I went again to find an alternative solution.

Rmagick at ruby-forge happened to have installation instructions but I had another problem. I also needed to have X11 installed which I didn’t so I had to digg up my OSX installation disk and follow some instructions on installing X11 on mac on this post by trae mccombs.

Back to the rmagick instructions on ruby-forge you’ll find a ruby script that you can run now that you have X11 installed and it’ll do the whole install for you. Then all that’s left to do is

sudo gem install rmagick

Code on!!!

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Grinding Rails

Whilst I was working on deploying my own rails app I needed some info on capistrano and found this great rails blog by Jordan McKible. Jordan has posted about heaps of stuff in rails and provides some code examples too.

Jordan has also created a rails installation guide for mac os x.

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