Archive for 2011
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RubyMine vs. Vim: my point of view
September 18, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on September 18, 2011.
So, I tweeted a question earlier today about what editor is preferred by the rubyists and, although I didn’t get many answers, it, combined with a recent discussion I had about RubyMine vs. Vim later, helped me clear my reasoning a bit.
By my reading of Agile Web Development With Rails and some people I follow on twitter, it seems that all the cool geeks use Vim (or TextMate or Emacs) for Ruby and Ruby on Rails programming instead of any IDE.
I once googled to find out that vim was way complicated to set up. That same time, I found akitaonrails vimfiles on github. Fairly easy to set up if you just follow the instructions. But today I realized that there…
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Showing git and mercurial repository information in PowerShell
June 9, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on June 9, 2011.
A while ago, I started getting a little annoyed when pushing my changes. It wasn’t until *then *that I realized that I forgot to add a yet untracked file to the repository or that I was in the wrong branch.
I made a quick Google search and found that I wasn’t the only one with this problem, and that there are some pretty cool solutions out there.
Since I’m currently developing in Windows, I found posh-git and posh-hg to be the more adequate ones.
It’s really easy. Just download them from here and here (or just go to links above and look for Downloads).
Both posh-git and posh-hg provide a quick inline summary with the current branch name and the number of…