Yesterday evening, I gave a presentation on the macro level of Behavior Driven Development and the basics of RSpec to the Northern Virginia Ruby User’s Group. Sadly, either the group was either unhip to LOLCats or simply was not amused by my sense of humor. O, the humanity.
In any events, PDFs of the slides are linked below.
BDD with RSpec
Incidentally, here are some links to Heckle and rcov that are referenced within the presentation (and easily supported from RSpec).
Posted by evan on Sep 20, 2007
I’d always heard that building RMagick was supposed to be just this side of Hell. However, some intrepid soul (I’m sorry, I lost the original post), listed several steps for building RMagick. I put these steps together into a single bash script that downloaded everything that I needed and built RMagick with only a few complaints and what seems to be a working final product. Just beware that the script is nothing fancy, i.e., it is hard-coded to what I believe are the current versions of the RMagick dependencies.
Follow the link for the script.
!/bin/bash
tar vzxf ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
sudo mv fonts/ /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/
curl -O http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz
tar xzvf freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.1.10
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
curl -O http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.10.tar.bz2
bzip2 -dc libpng-1.2.10.tar.bz2 | tar xv
cd libpng-1.2.10
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
curl -O ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar xzvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
ln -s which glibtool ./libtool
export MACOSXDEPLOYMENTTARGET=10.4
./configure –enable-shared –prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
curl -O ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
cd tiff-3.8.2
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
curl -O http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.3.0-0.tar.gz
tar xzvf ImageMagick-6.3.0-0.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.3.0
export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
./configure –prefix=/usr/local \
–disable-static –with-modules –without-perl \
–without-magick-plus-plus –with-quantum-depth=8 \
–with-gs-font-dir=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
make
sudo make install
cd ..
Posted by evan on Sep 09, 2007
My name is Evan Light and, yes, I am a nerd. I'm also a professional software developer who, after spending one too many years contracting to the federal government, escaped into the far more enjoyable commercial world. Having spent several years using C and even more using Java (the latter very nearly caused me to give up programming entirely), I consider myself fortunate to have discovered Ruby and to use it as part of my daily work.