I got this error in my Rails app because I was trying to sort an array of symbols: undefined method `’ for :my_symbol:Symbol. I defined the spaceship method for the Symbol class and included the Comparable module in order to … Continue reading
Pfhew, excitement! First things first, I applied to UK’s graduate school yesterday. Yes, I know, I’m crazy! I’m going to get my Master’s in computer science because I enjoy having $22,000 in debt already from student loans and I think … Continue reading
I went to a Ruby Users Group meeting the other day and there was a presentation on Shoes, described as “a very informal graphics and windowing toolkit.” It’s written by Why the Lucky Stiff, who does a lot of Ruby … Continue reading
Recently, I switched from a Powerbook to a Macbook, and to copy my files from one to the other, I used a pen drive. Since my pen drive has a FAT file system, it treats everything as being executable. This, however, is not the case on a UNIX-like file system like OS X. In order to save myself the hassle of manually chmodding thousands of files, I wrote this Ruby script. Continue reading
My database project is past the “omigosh are we going to get it done in time??” stage and into the “what neat feature can I add next?” stage, which is a big relief. If you guys want to play with … Continue reading