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adding macruby to multiruby versions

By Nate Murray | Published: May 22, 2009
Modified from Rob Seaman’s post. multiruby is a great way to make sure your ruby code runs on the multitude of ruby versions (it’s part of ZenTest). It doesn’t install macruby by default. Here are instructions on how to set it up. Since I installed macruby from the package installer my macruby files are in /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.4/. If [...]
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tweet twitter util – cli feedback on tweet length

By Nate Murray | Published: May 21, 2009
One of the nice things about the Twitter web-interface is that it gives you feedback on the number of characters you’ve typed so far. Since I use the command-line twitter gem (by John Nunemaker) I miss out on this feature and find myself using echo and wc to make sure I’m not over the limit. To [...]
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cp a symlink to multiple directories

By adam | Published: January 14, 2009
Today I wanted to copy a symlink to many different directories. So I tried the following: for f in `find . -regex ''.*cp.*snippets''` ; do cp bbb.html $f/ ; done Which returned: cp: cannot stat `bbb.html': No such file or directory bbb.html is a symlink and the default behavior of cp (I think) is to try and copy the [...]
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