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EngineYard takes over the JRuby team

Wow, EngineYard is really stepping up! Have to wonder though what’s going on at Sun, is the whole thing now imploding?! Crazy!

First stab at Scala scripting.. filters do not work like my Ruby brain thinks they do

So I decided to pick up the Scala language. Having done Ruby for a couple of years now Scala is one of the few, if not the only language that’s gotten me excited. Being a first class citizen on the JVM has many advantages and I’m really liking LiftWeb.

I also suspect I’ll be doing a [...]

Installing new Ruby postgresql adapter on Leopard

I need to fix a project which uses PostgreSQL. On a fresh Leopard install with postgresql 8.3 installed from ports I ran into this problem:

$ sudo gem install pg
Building native extensions.  This could take a while…
ERROR:  Error installing ruby-pg:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

The solution is quite simply. Just make sure pg_config can be [...]

Suriname

Currently enjoying some vacation in  Suriname.

Update: and back again (2009-03-06)