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.

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!

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!!!

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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Anyway enough of me, there’s some great community spirit in Rails community with developers everywhere doing cool things and helping others to be better programmers. Well Peepcode.com has just released two new screencasts on rails for beginners so you can fast track your rails learning curve. Each rails screencast costs just US$9 but they are good and I’m sure if your a beginner in rails that you’ll learn a thing or two.

Railscasts – About Railscasts

If your web developer and into the Ruby on Rails buzz or just getting onto it and want to learn more about Rails, then you have to stop in and check out Ryan Bates Ruby on Rails Screencasts.

Ryan is doing an awesome job providing tips, tricks, and techniques to improve your Rails programming and application development. Even as a beginner I have found them extremely useful in fast tracking my knowledge in learning more about Rails.

So go check them out, you won’t be dissapointed and also check out peepcode rails screencasts too for supporting Ryan’s free rails screencasts.

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Rails Deployment by Pragmatic Programmers

Well it’s about time that someone is going to put together some information on rails deployment. I personally have had my own stories to tell of hours of uncertainty and issues deploying a rails app to a productions server.

One problem for many new programmers both to programming in general and to rails is that rails doesn’t deploy as easily as using ftp to upload your files to your production server like PHP or HTML. If your really new to development you’ll also be totally confused with subversion a version control system for your applications files and then which web host supporting rails and then how to deploy on their particular system.

Yes it is and can be at time extremely frustrating especially if your a solo developer with limited resources for support other than forums, irc chats etc but even then it’s pretty difficult trying to explain your problems on forums with something so complicated.

Well there is finally a light at the end of the dark dim tunnel of deployment with the gurus from pragmatic programmers soon to release a book on Rails Deployment. I’ve read numerous books on rails and generally deployment is only a small part chapter not really enabling beginners like myself to deploy successfully. Only as of a couple of days ago I finally deployed a basic application over to textdrive after numerous attempts at trying to set up Rails on a dedicated server with MT. Even now I’m still not sure how to continue so I’ll need to do plenty of reading, trial and error, and no doubt mistakes before I finally and comfortable deploying a rails app.

So all I can say to the Pragmatic Programmers is hurry up and bring this book on because I have some money I’m more than willing to swap for the book and I’m sure I won’t be the only one.

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The podcast is available both on the website or on iTunes.

Looking for an edge in Rails development? Want to fast track the Ruby on Rails learning curve? Well there is a way! Geoffrey Grosenbach from TopFunky.com has a website dedicated to providing high quality training video tutorials on everything Ruby on Rails at his site PeepCode.

There is one tutorial per month from mastering apps like Textmate and Capistrano to Test First Development and RJS Templates. Geoffrey is also well know for his Ruby on Rails podcast which you can get from iTunes. He also travels the world teaching all of us Nuby Rails developers on how to do things right so that makes him an authority on the subject.

I’m off to buy a couple of screencasts from Peepcode for the great price of only $9 each.