Topic: Git

What makes Ruby/Rails Development Fun

Sharad Jain, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

I have been a full-time Ruby programmer for about a year now. I used ruby/rails before then but I didn't really "get it". Considering that I was a Java/J2EE guy before and never worked with dynamic languages, it wasn't surprising. Now that it has been a transformation and a worthy evolution, it is about time to review what makes ruby development fun. Yes, Ruby is known for its dynamism, expressiveness, malleability. But today I hope to list a few tools, techniques, concepts that make my programming experience fun these days. Here they are:

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handling CRLF in git

Sharad Jain, Thursday, January 22, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

If you use git on windows or cygwin, I am sure you've encountered this.

$ git add dir/newfile
fatal: LF would be replaced by CRLF in dir/newfile

While there is much confusion/discussion around how to handle this using core.autocrlf and core.safecrlf config attributes, I have lately settled with this recommendation:
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git how to: ignoring files in git

Sharad Jain, Friday, January 9, 2009 @ 4:57 pm

Just as we moved from cvs to subversion to git, our ignore files changed from .cvsignore to .svnignore to .gitignore. However, git offers more flexibility in managing our ignore files depending on situation you are in. Here are a few options, I've found:

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Selling Git on the Business End

Josh Symonds, Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 12:55 am

Today I gave a presentation on why Git makes sense for an agile consultancy like ours. It was more challenging than I initially imagined; there are many, many blog posts out there discussing why Git is technically superior to Subversion. But when I searched for posts discussing the business merits of Git I came up short. Git is faster, branches better, it has a local copy of the repository, it's small and cheap, but these are points that sell an engineer. What sells the administrators, the business analysts, the project managers?

I came up with a few cool scenarios to illustrate why we, as a business, should adopt Git -- essentially, why it makes not only my life easier, but why it will make the decision makers incredibly happy too. Then my colleague Jason Sendelbach and I gave a short talk on not only the why of the Git, but how we can start using it. Here I'll summarize our presentation. If you want to use Git in your company, but you have problems selling it to the administration, feel free to crib liberally. These points worked great for me.

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