Customized Google search engine for ruby on rails(ROR)

Today Ritu Kamthan created a search engine for RubyOnRails (powered by Google Co-op)

Presently it searches over following sites:

weblog.rubyonrails.org
wiki.rubyonrails.com
rituonrails.wordpress.com
webonrails.wordpress.com
fromdelhi.com
vinsol.com
rubyonrails.org
ajaxonrails.wordpress.com
del.icio.us/
www.rubycentral.org
www.rubycentral.com
www.ruby-lang.org
www.rubyonrails.com
nubyonrails.com
rubyforge.org
sitekreator.com/satishtalim/index.html
dec.orat.in/
den1jay.blogs.assembla.com/

If you are a regular rails blogger and wanna add your site to this list, please let me or Ritu know, so that we can include your site.

My new HP Pavillion DV2117 Notebook

My new Notebook

Configuration:

Intel Core Duo Processor 1.66 GHz, Intel 945GM Chipset, 2 MB L2 Cache / 533 MHz FSB, 1 GB PC2-4200 (533 MHz) DDR2, 100 GB Serial ATA, 150 MB/ Sec @5400 RPM, 8X SuperMulti Double Layer (8.5 GB) DVD +RW/ +R Writer, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950; DVMT 3.0 – Up to 128 MB, 14.1″ WideScreen (WXGA) with BrightView Technology, Windows XP Media Center Edition, 1 year limited global warranty, Integrated Bluetooth HP Module, IEEE 802.15 Standard, Integrated 802.11a/b/g, Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG, Altec Lansing Stereo Speakers, 5-In-1 Digital Media Reader (Secure Digital, Multi-media card, Memory stick, Memory stick pro and xD picture card), Integrated 56K Modem, HP Imprint Finish – Wave Pattern, Capacitive Buttons – Backlit with touch technology, 2 Headphone Jacks, Wired Headset, HP QuickPlay Direct, HP Mobile ExpressCard Remote Control, Integrated 1.3 Megapixel webcam, Microphones, Next Gen Express Card/54 Slot, Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security 2006 (Includes 60 days live updates)

Ruby On Rails India

As far as I know there are very few people working on RubyOnRails in India. Vinayak solutions Pvt. Ltd. is doing great in this field. Recently Manik Juneja (Director) attended the Rails conf. Landon and last week traveled Colombo to train a team of web programmers on Ruby on Rails.

Tab completion in irb

irb has completion support, you need to activate this by requiring ‘irb/completion’. You can load it when you invoke irb from the command line:


% irb -r irb/completion


Or you can load the completion library when irb is running:


% irb(main):005:0> require 'irb/completion'


If you often use completion then:

Linux users: Can create an alias in .bashrc by following these steps:

• % vi ~/.bashrc
• add alias irbtc="irb -r 'irb/completion'"

• % source ~/.bashrc

Windows Users: Can create a file named irbtc.bat in your windows\system32 folder as irb -r "irb/completion" the file content.

Now you can run irb with completion support by:
% irbtc

Example:

% irbtc
irb(main):001:0> st="this is a string"
=> "this is a string"
irb(main):002:0> st.len
irb(main):002:0> st.length
=> 16
irb(main):003:0> st.up
st.upcase st.upcase! st.upto
irb(main):003:0> st.up