Nate Berkopec nateberkopec

Last night, Brian Shirai unilaterally "ended" the RubySpec project, a sub-project of Rubinius (the alternative Ruby implementation which Brian was paid to work on full-time from 2007 to 2013). The blog post describing his reasons for "ending" the project led to a big discussion on Hacker News.

When a single, competing Ruby implementation tells that you its test suite is the One True Way, you should be skeptical. Charles Nutter, Ruby core committer and JRuby head honcho, spent a lot of time last night on Twitter talking to people about what this decision means. He's probably too busy and certainly too nice of a guy to write about what is a political issue in the Ruby community, so I'm going to do it on behalf of all the new or intermediate Rubyists out there that are confused by Brian's decision and what it me

	unless File.exist?('Gemfile')
	File.write('Gemfile', <<-GEMFILE)
	source 'https://rubygems.org'
	gem 'rails', '4.1.8'
	#gem 'rails', '4.2.0.rc2'
	gem 'sqlite3'
	gem 'pg'
	gem 'byebug'
	gem 'benchmark-ips'
	GEMFILE

	class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
	has_one :payment
	def complete
	payment.complete
	end
	end

	class Payment < ActiveRecord::Base
	belongs_to :gateway_transaction
	def complete

	def prepare_bodies(message)
	messages = message.scan(/.{1,130}\b/)
	return messages if messages.length == 1
	messages.each_with_index.map do \|s, i\|
	"(#{i + 1}/#{messages.length}) #{s}"
	end
	end

	Add Sentry to your Gemfile:

	gem "sentry-raven", :require => 'raven', :git => "https://github.com/getsentry/raven-ruby.git"

	Add a config/initializers/raven.rb containing:

	Raven.configure do \|config\|
	config.dsn = 'https://ee561c4bd99f45c6bb2a442b1af04677:[email protected]/31964'
	end

	food idea list

	tortillas
	peanut butter
	instant coffee
	instant oatmeal
	foil packet: potatoes, chicken, fish
	ramen
	canned chicken, turkey
	mac and cheese

	$ bundle exec rake guides:generate WARNINGS=1; bundle exec rake guides:validate
	.../.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/bin/ruby rails_guides.rb
	Generating 2_2_release_notes.md as 2_2_release_notes.html
	Generating 2_3_release_notes.md as 2_3_release_notes.html
	Generating 3_0_release_notes.md as 3_0_release_notes.html
	Generating 3_1_release_notes.md as 3_1_release_notes.html
	Generating 3_2_release_notes.md as 3_2_release_notes.html
	Generating 4_0_release_notes.md as 4_0_release_notes.html
	Generating 4_1_release_notes.md as 4_1_release_notes.html
	Generating _license.html.erb as _license.html

	$ bundle exec rake guides:generate
	.../.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/bin/ruby rails_guides.rb
	Generating 2_2_release_notes.md as 2_2_release_notes.html
	Generating 2_3_release_notes.md as 2_3_release_notes.html
	Generating 3_0_release_notes.md as 3_0_release_notes.html
	Generating 3_1_release_notes.md as 3_1_release_notes.html
	Generating 3_2_release_notes.md as 3_2_release_notes.html
	Generating 4_0_release_notes.md as 4_0_release_notes.html
	Generating 4_1_release_notes.md as 4_1_release_notes.html
	Generating _license.html.erb as _license.html

	RUBY_GC_HEAP_FREE_SLOTS: 600000
	RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_FACTOR: 1.25
	RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_MAX_SLOTS: 200000
	RUBY_GC_HEAP_INIT_SLOTS: 600000
	RUBY_GC_HEAP_OLDOBJECT_LIMIT_FACTOR: 1.3
	RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT: 16000000
	RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT_MAX: 32000000
	RUBY_GC_OLDMALLOC_LIMIT: 16000000
	RUBY_GC_OLDMALLOC_LIMIT_MAX: 32000000

	class Admin::BaseController < ApplicationController
	end