easy install node js.

if you've got your ear to to ground you'll know that the thing all the web dev early adopters are raving about it node js.

since yesterday, install it on ubuntu like this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jerome-etienne/neoip
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

do it!

Run your ruby Gist on heroku

Gist is a great service on GitHub which serves up a copy-pasteable text boxes with full version control.

It's useful for sharing snippets of code around...

but what if you could run that code!

well, now you can! with GistRunner

just enter the gist id into the field, or copy-paste the url of the gist.

it'll download your gist and execute it on server!

insane? maybe.

it's pretty alpha, (wrote it all yesterday) so there is lots of room for improvement,

but when you just want to convince your friends that we should all go to base 12, by wipping up a quick base 12 times table.... you can!

base12 times table

base12 gist

sneak a custom gem into heroku

today, I've been trying to get Wee running on heroku.

I have a custom version of the gem, and want to run it on heroku.

i looked down a few avenues, but decided they where all too complicated right now - I was having trouble getting something basic to work, if I tried something complex then that is just more stuff I will have to debug.

so my plan was: load by custom gem as normal code in the local directoy

> gem unpack wee

then, add to my config.ru:

libdir = "wee-2.2.0/lib/"
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(libdir)

now, when ever this is a line like require 'wee' it will look into the local wee-2.2.0/lib/ and find wee.rb instead of loading from the gem directory.

uploaded it to heroku and it worked!

p.s. the rest of the config.ru looked like this:

require 'continuations.rb'

app = Wee::Application.new { Wee::Session.new(Page.instanciate, Wee::Session::ThreadSerializer.new) }
run app