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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Understanding TextMate Paths

I recently installed Ruby 1.8.7 in /usr/local. I have Ruby 1.8.6 installed via MacPorts in /opt/local. I couldn’t understand why TextMate’s Ruby bundle was running Ruby 1.8.7 even though my bash .profile was setting PATH correctly; i.e. /opt/local/bin was before /usr/local/bin.
Several people in the #textmate IRC channel helped out, including Allan, the creator of TextMate, [...]

MethodTrails Demo at RailsConf

I just gave a quick talk about MethodTrails at RailsConf 2008.
MethodTrails visualizes the method call graph of Ruby source code. It generates a dot file that can be viewed with Graphviz. It requires Ruby 1.9, which gives you a great excuse to download the latest Ruby and see what it is all about. MethodTrails uses [...]