So I’ve finally decided to make the switch to a distributed source control system.  The benefits are well-documented, and I’ve grown weary of Subversion.  After some research, I decided Mercurial would be best for me.  Since I have OCD, and I wanted to push via HTTP to my remote repository, I did some homework and figured out how to get everything running on my VPS.  If you’d like to see how I did it, read on. Step 1:  Prerequisites Since my VPS runs Ubuntu Linux 9.10, there are a few packages to install before we get started.  Run the following command to...

A few weeks back I posted about getting the ruby-debug-ide gem installed in Windows under Ruby 1.8.6.  In that post I outlined how hacking a header file and using the Visual C++ 2008 compiler could be leveraged to get the gem built and installed properly.  Well, after a helpful comment from a reader and watching a few screencasts over on TekPub, I actually found a way to do this with Ruby 1.9.1 from RubyInstaller.org. As you know, I swapped my Windows development environment for Mac OSX, and so far learning Rails has been a great pleasure thanks to Agile Web Development with Rails (Third...

I’ve been stuck for a while now.  There are so many amazing technologies and frameworks out there, and I’ve finally decided to devote some serious time to one of the best (in my opinion) which is Rails.  I know I’ve talked about this in the past, and, frankly, I’ve been either too busy or too lazy to seriously devote time to it.  But this year I’ve decided to make a resolution to seriously learn Rails by rebuilding this blog with it.  I know there are a million blog platforms out there, especially when you consider the fact that every geek seems to write their own. ...