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ruby script for text file indexing

By etagwerker | Published: December 8, 2010

So I decided to write a little script to count the words in the file.

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why you should keep your rvm up to date

By etagwerker | Published: November 8, 2010

This is a “note to self” post. Whenever you want to install the latest version of one of the available Ruby interpreters with rvm, you should make sure you have the latest version of rvm. It does make a difference. For example: I wanted to test one of my gems with Rubinius (rbx) So I ran [...]

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how to install ruby debug for ruby 1.9.2 (the rvm way)

By etagwerker | Published: October 11, 2010

Last night I had some trouble installing ruby-debug. I have recently started using Rails 3 on Ruby 1.9.2-head and I wanted to debug an issue I was having. Initially, I tried to install ruby-debug. That was wrong. When using ruby 1.9, you need to install the ruby-debug19 gem. Then I tried to install ruby-debug19 with [...]

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