Beginner Ruby

I was recently having the hardest time figuring out how to run Ruby scripts using cron jobs on my shared host. I had sucessfully created cron jobs with PHP, so I didn’t understand why every single technique I was trying did not seem to do the trick.

I spent atleast an

While tinkering recently on a hobby project, I kept having ‘freezing’ issues. Sure I tried to error handle the bah-jeezus out of it in order to fail gracefully instead of forever hanging, but for some reason which I couldn’t ascertain – the thing was hanging.

I suddenly remembered about a SetTimeout

One of my most recent open-source Ruby projects is a little project I called ‘RubyRetriever’. RubyRetriever is supposed to be an auto-downloader, it goes out like a spider to every URL you provide and it scans them for executables – and if it finds any it downloads them. The reason

Have you seen this error:

Usually I write exclusively about Ruby on this site, and that may change in the near future, but today’s post is brought on by hours of painful troubleshooting I had to endure in order to get a functional Ruby on Rails environment setup on my Debian