Ruby IDE - Netbeans ?

over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo

are you simply waiting for your frozen up IDE to unfreeze while working in Ruby ?

The past month or so have been kinda painful working with IntelliJ. The IDE used to just freeze up, with and without JVM optimizations

Have always been meaning to get back to Netbeans and give it a good shot. Use it for a bit and see how it holds up.
And the past two days have been fabulous. Have not been able to check out all the features, but its good enough. The only issue being unfamiliar key bindings, but thats just sometime before I remap all the key bindings to what I am used to.

Instead of re-iterating Netbeans goodness, here is a good post by someone else detailing it ( with lotsa nice screen shots )
Flash videos
Tor Norbye actively writing about his progress with the Ruby support on Netbeans
Net Beans Ruby wiki
Download location

its all here. Get onto a better Ruby IDE .... for now :)

Starting point

over 2 years ago | Riju Kansal: Riju's Thoughts Captured...

This is my first blog. Lets see how it goes from here.

My fav road

over 2 years ago | Karthik: Chain of Thoughts

Nanda road is my favourite one - one of the few roads where its a pleasure to walk or drive. Good to know that there's an effort to do something about it here.

Save Nanda Road dot com'd

over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo

Save Nanda Road ( http://savenandaroad.com )

I love this stretch and I am glad there are folks who feel the same and are doing some thing about it.

small pleasures

over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo

a friend pointed this out.
Searching for Firefox bicycles pulls BumsOnTheSaddle as the first result. Above Firefox bikes, the company that actually makes them :)

Like I mentioned. Small pleasures. :)

Selenium Core Bug and TinyMCE Anchor Tags

over 2 years ago | Ryan Kinderman: kinderman.net :

Today, I was trying to get Selenium to click an anchor tag that was created with the "link" plugin in a TinyMCE editor. I was able to verify that the link was present with something as simple as verifyElementPresent('link=Link Text'). However, when I tried calling clickAndWait('link=Link Text'), it gave a "Window does not exist" error. A quick Google search yielded the answer: a bug in Selenium Core.

When the TinyMCE "link" plugin creates a link that doesn't open in a new window, it sets the "target" attribute on the anchor tag to "_self". Selenium Core versions prior to 0.8.4 (which hasn't been released yet) don't respond to links with "target" set to "_self".

If you're doing Rails development and using the selenium_on_rails plugin, it uses an old version of Selenium Core (0.7.something) as of this posting. To fix the anchor tag problem, I replaced the contents of the selenium-core directory under vendor/plugins/selenium_on_rails with that of the core directory of the Selenium Core 0.8.3 release, then applied the patch described in the bug spec linked to above. This seems to have fixed the problem.

Hopefully this saves you all some time and muddling.

Cycling lanes in Bangalore

over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo

Cycling lane on Cubbon road

Came across a cycling lane on Cubbon Road in Bangalore. pretty neat

rohan_kini @ 2007-10-08T00:45:00

over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo

          

Samim and Vibhor get quite a welcome :) I think they deserve it !
More pictures 

join the victory lap

over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo

Samim and Vibhor are back from their month long running (Bangalore to Mumbai) and cycling (Mumbai to Bangalore) endeavor.

They will be at Mekhri circle at 9:45 am and at the G.P.O at 10am. nikhile and I are planning to join them on their last leg along with other cyclists, to cheer them on.

Wanna join us ? Just dust that cycle sitting in the corner and come along :)

Ruby + IntelliJ getting on your nerves ?

over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo

Using the RubyPlugin with IntelliJ can cause serious hair loss at times when IntelliJ freezes up as it goes on a tangent doing Garbage collection and god knows what else.

We made some small changes to the jvm parameters which seem to help enormously.

now my idea.vmoptions file looks like this (tweaked some numbers and added the last two lines. The idea.vmoptions file sits in the bin folder on linux).
Basically swapped in a different Garbage collector (the concurrent low pause collector) and also used the server mode for the JVM.

-Xms300m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=99m
-ea
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-server
 
Thanks Chris.

TreesForFree

over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo

TreesForFree

The power of blogging and the internet.

We recently got to know about this group called TreesForFree who are planting trees in and around Bangalore. Our group, TheGreenForce, wanted to do pretty much the same.  Looks like its time to just join up forces instead of fragmenting and starting something new.