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Off Github
Right about now everyone is switching away from GitHub gem host. It’s crappy enough that you have to edit environments in your config files — you also have to reinstall the big pile of gems on your machines. Cleaning up my big old gem list doesn’t strike me as a fun leisure time.
Off Github is [...]
Drier gem configs
Update: This article is obsolete. Gemcutter should take first place in your gem sources. This way there is no reason to use :source option at all.
Now is the worst time for duplication in gem configs with all the changes going on. GitHub is not a gem host anymore. Soon RubyForge may follow the same path.
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My Tools of the Trade
I used to be somewhat settled, living my stationary life in a Brooklyn apartment. Circumstances have changed in 2009, when I started to spend a lot of time on the go. This was the point at which all of the commitments, contracts, and physical commodities I had been piling up over the years have emerged [...]
