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The How and Why of Bundler Groups

~2 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
Since version 0.9, Bundler has had a feature called “groups”. The purpose of this feature is to allow you to specify groups of dependencies which may...

My Common Git Workflow

~2 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
A recent post that was highly ranked on Hacker News complained about common git workflows causing him serious pain. While I won’t get into the merit of...

Encodings, Unabridged

~2 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
I wrote somewhat extensively about the problem of encodings in Ruby 1.9 in general last week. For those who didn’t read that post, let me start with a...

What’s New in Bundler 1.0.0.rc.1

almost 2 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
Taking into consideration the huge amount of feedback we received during the Bundler 0.9 series, we streamlined Bundler 1.0 significantly, and made it fit...

Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong

almost 2 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
A couple weeks ago, I took the plunge and switched to vim (MacVIM, to be precise). It wasn’t the first time I tried to make the switch, and I had pretty...

Threads (in Ruby): Enough Already

almost 2 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
For a while now, the Ruby community has become enamored in the latest new hotness, evented programming and Node.js. It’s gone so far that I’ve heard...

Using >= Considered Harmful (or, What’s Wrong With >=)

almost 2 years ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
TL;DR Use ~> instead. Having spent far, far too much time with Rubygems dependencies, and the problems that arise with unusual combinations, I am ready...

A Tale of Abort Traps (or Always Question Your Assumptions)

over 1 year ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
For a few months now, the bundler team has been getting intermittent reports of segfaults in C extensions that happen when using bundler with rvm. A cursory...

Automatic Flushing: The Rails 3.1 Plan

over 1 year ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
preamble: this post explains, in some detail, how we will implement a nice performance boost for Rails developers. Understanding the details might help...

Announcing Handlebars.js

over 1 year ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
For a number of years, I’ve been about as active in client-side development (through jQuery) as I have been active in server-side development (through...