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Fixing OpenSSL/Bundler issue for Rails on Debian

Have you seen this error:

Rails: cannot load such file -- openssl

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

RubyMotion – iOS dev with Ruby, by the MacRuby guy

Just released moments ago, is a new product named RubyMotion. Ruby Motion, by original MacRuby author Laurent Sansonetti, is a development toolkit for writing iOS apps in native code using Ruby. Starting today, you can be using Ruby to write apps for your iPhone or iPad.

It’s interesting that this project

My First Opensource Project – Domainblob

Last night, I opensource’d my first Ruby project using github – it’s a bulk domain name lookup tool named Domainblob. of course, I’ve released code before via examples on this blog and such, but I have never really started a github repo just for a project. I am very excited

Using Ruby Arrays as a Temp Stack

When I write a Ruby program, arrays end up being used as my go-to datatype consistently. Maybe I am not very advanced and have a 1-dimensional programming technique — I think about this, and its possible because I am not an expert. However, the more time goes on the more