Here’s a quick tip I learned this weekend on how to get all your RubyGems installed without documentation by default.
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I just got started using Vim for Ruby on Rails development. Here are some of my notes on how I got started. Please note that this is more of a (rough) guide on how to get Vim setup for Ruby on Rails than it is how to use it.
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Here are some quick tips to keep in mind when coding new methods in Ruby.
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Unless is a backwards if in Ruby. For the longest time I had a hard time wrapping my head around using it instead of just using not if, which I’ve always been used to. But, if you want to be apart of the Ruby culture, you need to learn how to use unless, here’s my simple technique on how I learned to use it.
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Here’s how to fix that annoying Ruby on Rails popup message: “The program can’t start because msvcrt-ruby18.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.”

This fix applies if you’re using cucumber on Windows.
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Here’s a little reminder for myself on how I fixed the “sqlite3.dll missing” error message I was getting while setting up a new Ruby on Rails environment.
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This is a reminder for myself for when I want to use a migration to create test data for the development environment only.
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