So you’ve installed (or upgraded to) ubuntu 11.10 and everything looks great… Except – uh!, lots of gedit plugins are only compatible with gedit 2! But don’t be sad.. or angry.. This guide points out, how to, nevertheless, create a solid foundation that allows you getting prodcutive with gedit!

I am using the Jekyll blog generator for some projects (still not sure if I really like it..) and came across the following requirement the other day:

• The blog should only have an index page, no (visible) sub-posts
• This index page should use pagination
• There should be the ability to link to a specific blog post

The problem was: I wanted to use anchor links (https://some.url/#post-identifier), but – because of the pagination – blog posts “change” their index page (e.g. in jekyll, they move from /#example to /page2/#example).

Ruby 1.8 dies in June 2012. This post shows some small examples, why this is good ;)

My codebrawl entry (gist) got the 5th place (out of 20). Want to use it in real life :)

How to get the following for your gedit:

• Up-to-date Ruby syntax highlighting
• Proper highlighting for .js.erb or .yml.erb files
• Gemfile.lock highlighting
  
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Rails migrations are easy to understand and easy to write. However, you can save some unnecessary key strokes by applying these three tips :)

There are plenty terminal color gems out there. Now, there is one more. Why?