Matt Wynne taking it one tea at a time
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A few minutes ago I posted about the time I’d wasted since inadvertently upgrading my ruby version.
My last hurdle was to install the mysql ruby gem, which is never easy on OS X, as I learned the first time around a few days ago.
However this time, I was stumped. The gem seemed to build OK, but would simply not appear in gem list. Finally, I found this miraculous post.
So I just spent a fun morning trying to work out why so many of our unit tests were breaking on my machine with the message:
undefined method `[]' for #<enumerable: <a href="http://blog.mattwynne.net/2008/07/31/danger-macports-breaks-your-railsruby-relationship/#more-67" class="more-link"><span class="more-link">Continue Reading »</span></enumerable:>
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of little posts about the little flashes of ‘culture shock’ that I experience as I start to move from C# to Ruby as my day-to-day programming language.
Here we’re going to look at the subtle yet significant difference in how method access modifiers work in Ruby and C#.
I'm a freelance programmer & coach, XP evangelist and refactoring addict. Whenever possible, I also enjoy a spot of idling.
In 2008 I made the break from a long career on the Microsoft platform and am now working with Ruby and various other open source tools and software. In 2011 I finished this book:
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