brite fisher

Learnings for Week 24 2010

* Latest Rails 3 beta doesn't work in ruby 1.9.1, as stated in "the release notes":http://guides.rails.info/3_0_release_notes.html#rails-3-requires-at-least-ruby-187 * Mongrel doesn't build in Ruby 1.9.2.preview3 on Snow Leopard (for me at least) * Factory Girl factories don't autoload in Rails 3 anymore, do it yourself or use "factory_girl_rails gem":http://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails * Colored grep: grep --color=auto * Vim visual block I ctrl-r-+ to insert copied text * IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 100 * :set spell in Vim to "turn on spell checking":http://tips.webdesign10.com/vim/how-use-vims-spellchecker * "Ruby do...while loop":http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136793/is-there-a-do-while-loop-in-ruby begin; code; end while(true)