Deploy Spree 1.0 on Heroku 3 Mar 2012 | 06:16 pm

I am in the process of moving my digital house to the new Octopress-based ruby-journal.com, there are many things to clean up and migrate but I guess for now I will do double-post on this site and the...

How to access gcc and other build tools of Xcode 4.3 or newer in console 21 Feb 2012 | 06:58 pm

Apple announced Xcode 4.3 for OSX Lion and 4.4 for OSX Mountain Lion last week. The major difference is that Xcode no longer provide an installer which is good thing because you now could update Xcode...

Specify precision and scale attributes for decimal number with scaffold/model/migration generators in Rails 3.2.0 23 Jan 2012 | 12:35 pm

By using the short hand  :decimal{precision, scale}, rails generator lets you generate number migration with decimal and scale. You could use {precision, scale} or {precison-scale} or {precision.scale...

Happy Lunar New Year! 23 Jan 2012 | 03:45 am

Happy New Year to all friends and readers. You guys have been, are and always be my inspiration to write and contribute to the great Ruby community. I would like to take this opportunity to extend my ...

Introduction to The Suicidal Jumpman Ruby game aka ROFLBALT 17 Jan 2012 | 08:35 pm

Hi folks, the last 3 days were MADLY fun for me @ Railscamp X (Adelaide). I was blown away with beers, whiskey, Werewolfs, foods, geeks, hackers and their SUPERCOOL hacks. Dennis Hotson (@dennishotson...

Replace Honda Accord Euro MY05 Battery 16 Dec 2011 | 01:41 am

This year is the worst year of my life, everything is breaking down. And just a week before X-Mas, my car battery decided to retire after 5 years of hard work. So I started venturing into the World Wi...

Open Cubic Player (ocp) is now available under Homebrew for all MacOS X 12 Dec 2011 | 11:54 pm

For whom who doesn’t know what Open Cublic Player (ocp) is, this application is a pure console music player for DOS and *NIX based platform. It was one of the most popular app of the DOS era. Though l...

Best way to read codes before you sleep 5 Dec 2011 | 12:40 am

Before I go to bed, I force myself to read code on my laptop while laying on bed. I normally lie down sideway facing left or right so I am more comfortable reading code that is vertically rotated. Tha...

Quantum talk by Damian Conway @ YOW 2011 2 Dec 2011 | 01:23 pm

Damian is a truly world-class speaker. His talk on Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces is very inspirin...

Multi-line comment with Ruby 1 Dec 2011 | 02:17 am