October 2007
9 posts
Tales from the server: Packaging Software
You’ll often hear SysAdmins advocate writing a script for any task you expect to repeat more than once, and I couldn’t agree more. Over the years, I’ve often found myself taking it a step further, and packaging anything I expect to install more than once, or install in any production environment. There are a lot of benefits, but mostly I find the added server consistency and conveniences of the...
September 2007
2 posts
irb sessions with wirble
Have you ever been hacking away at an idea in irb, only to have to dig through your history so you can transcribe it into your project? Or worse, you’ve quit and realized that you can’t remember some brilliant snippet of code? Some quick hacking on top of wirble’s history functionality is letting me retrieve previous sessions from irb. my .irbrc
1 # load libraries 2 ...