I always knew being on Twitter would one day pay off. I follow Pete Cashmore of Mashable and he posted a link to participate in a free beta ‘test’. Sign up and get your blog listed and you get a free sample of some coffee. Nice.
The company is Joffrey’s and the free sample is Jamaican Me Crazy. Head on over to their beta site (no time limit is posted but I have to believe samples will run out).
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Cheers!
The end of the story is that I should wipe my drive, reinstall Leopard, and build what’s missing in my development environment; reinstalling all the ’soft’ items too (and by soft I mean: applications, documents, music, movies, and pictures)
While I was doing straight Ruby coding, using Rspec for my tests, TextMate was my friend. It was fun, worked a charm. However, while doing some Rails work I kept getting this bizarre error about not having Rails 2.0.2 installed.
Huh? I most certainly do!.
After I commented out RAILS_GEM_VERSION in environment.rb I finally figured out why it wasn’t working: TextMate was using Ruby shipped with Leopard and that version didn’t have Rails 2.0.2 installed.
Yikes! Now what?
I first went to the Rspec TM page and found this tidbit of info:
You may also have to set your TM_RUBY environment variable in TextMate’s preferences to point to your ruby executable. You can also tell RSpec.tmbundle to use a particular RSpec (the library) at a particular location on your filesystem. Just define the TM_RSPEC_HOME environment variable in TextMate’s preferences. This should point to the your working copy’s rspec directory.
So I updated my TextMate preferences, adding TM_RUBY and TM_RSPEC_HOME and Viola’ All is well and happy in the land.
I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard - just an upgrade - not a wipe and reinstall. And on Tiger I had installed Ruby from MacPorts and everything (minus TextMate until recently) was configured to look for Ruby in /opt/local.
I got some good advice last night: sudo port uninstal ruby. Looks like I’ll be planning some changes to my development environment.
Cheers!
