Category Archives: Programming

Python, bash, and general programming issues

Improved irb configuration

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

As applies to most new tools I start to use, the time in which I’ve started to learn Ruby has included a fair amount of time improving my general working environment, to make it more suited to the use of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ruby | Tagged efficiency, Programming, Ruby | 4 Comments

A better Ruby prompt

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

The Interactive Ruby Shell, or irb, is indispensable for trying out Ruby code rapidly, seeing what works and what’s elegant. But the defaults aren’t quite optimal. Tab completion It lacks tab completion by default. Having this available can save you … Continue reading →

Posted in Ruby | Tagged efficiency, Linux, Programming, Ruby | 3 Comments

Rails on Ubuntu

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

[EDIT, 2009-12-20]: For some time I steered away from installing Rails via APT on Ubuntu systems. I ran into a number of annoyances early on trying to get various bits of Ruby, Rails, libraries, and others installed and working together … Continue reading →

Posted in RubyOnRails | Tagged Programming, Ruby, RubyOnRails | 1 Comment

Send events to Zenoss from scripts

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

Working at Zenoss the company, our IT group uses Zenoss the application to monitor our infrastructure. Initially, we setup the needed monitoring for various resources, added thresholds and received email alerts if there were problems. That was all well and … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Programming, Python, sysadmin, Zenoss | 7 Comments

Ruby, Rails, and Gems: Getting Started

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

I recently started learning Ruby (mostly to flesh out my programming knowledge) and since one of the main self-detected shortcomings in my programming knowledge and skillset is web frameworks and web programming, I decided to give Ruby on Rails a … Continue reading →