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I participated in August Rails Hackfest which was a great experience. You can see the missing August 2007 from the Post Archives. I didn’t post anything last month as I was busy in submitting rails patches. I submitted a lot of patches out of which I got one patch committed  [ Read More ]

Hey Everyone, Vinsol is proudly taking charge to spread Rubyism in delhi and to grow the Ruby & Rails communities here in New Delhi, India. We are organizing delhi.rb meetups around once every month, the meetup is all about ruby and rails as well. The meetup was on 19th July  [ Read More ]

It was ruining all my mood and concentration when i was trying some sample ruby code in irb and again and again i had to retype the things because the arrow keys were not working there. I searched the problem on net and found that i need to have readline  [ Read More ]

While installing RMagick on Linux, if you are getting errors like this “GraphicsMagick-config… no configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program. …”, below is the solution for this error. RMagick requires ImageMagick and which further requires loads of dependencies already available to get installed and work  [ Read More ]

Working on command line SSH is quite natural but FTP is a bit heck. I found it hard to work on command line FTP for my godaddy account specially for removing the remote files and uploading the directories. I found the gFTP very much useful GUI based Ftp client. You  [ Read More ]

Hi everybody, I have moved fully on Ubuntu FeistyFawn There are lots of cool features in it like …. Run Application(the application launcher, hotkey alt+f2), the DesktopBar(full web and system search including files and folders, hotkey alt+f3) … and the TomBoy notes. Use ctl+l to open explorer in specific location

Hey Everyone, Check out the cool opera widget Travel Mate written by my friend Aditya Features Weather Information of the destination place Location specific images Google Maps of the destination place, a really nice feature… which makes this widget one of its own kind. Flight booking, can check the availability  [ Read More ]

Defining Satisfaction

Do you actually know what is the definition for satisfaction for You ? Whenever i talk with my friends to earn huge and huge… a lots of time i usually get the comments that its not the money which can always satisfies you! More prior thing is the kind of  [ Read More ]

Hi all, I found an answer(a tweak) to the question which was pinging my mind while working on my current project that How to validate one or more specific attribute of the model(field of the table i mean)?, as the requirement was to save a record after validating the model’s  [ Read More ]

Ruby is DuckTyped

NOTE : This post may contains repeated and boring stuff for those who already have the programming practice of DuckTyping. What is Duck Typing ? Duck Typing is Dynamic Typing In ruby we do not declare the type of the variable. It automatically becomes the object of the related class.  [ Read More ]

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