Looking for Ruby in Richmond?

I have a secret to share with you: I help run one of the coolest users group in the Richmond, VA, USA area.  The name of the group is Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts Group (CVReg).  It’s filled with some of the nicest, most passionate, technologically savvy people.  Our focus is in Ruby and the tools and frameworks that either sit on top of Ruby or co-exists with it.  We also dabble/demo/present on other dynamic language technologies; Smalltalk and Javascript being the most recent topics covered. You can get more information from Google (of course).  However, how about I just give you the link here?  CVReg.org

Cheers!

 

TextMate, Leopard, Rspec…oh my…

In Conclusion

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)

TextMate and Rspec

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.

The Cause?

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!