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Learning new things is easy if you have access to all kind of materials like books, mailing-list archives, IRC channels, search engines and of course - the manuals. Having no access to Internet means that I need to gather all the answers for my questions during the small timeframe I’m online and also save this information for future use. So, while hacking on some Rails stuff yesterday I couldn’t find any docs on my harddrive. First I though it was because I still wasn’t familiar how ruby-gems are supposed to be installed, but later found out that indeed - no docs for rails itself, but only for it’s main dependancies.

Today I first wanted to download the whole site from api.rubyonrails.org, first with sitecopy, but found out that it’s for uploading stuff… So logged into the #rubyonrails IRC channel and asked out loud:

[13:35] <amd> how is the http://api.rubyonrails.org/ site generated?
[13:35] <amd> I would like to make myself an offline copy of it...

The answers were fast to come…

[13:35] <defswork> amd: wget -r it
[13:35] <amd> defswork, nice 
[13:36] * _saiko_ has quit ("leaving")
[13:37] <koppen> amd: rake doc:rails
[13:37] <koppen> amd: gem_server; and open 127.0.0.1:8808 in your browser gives you something almost like it

OK.. enough said… started the gem_server and opened the URL. Sadly - no docs for Rails. Now I knew what had to be done - it was time to request help from the Gentoo guys, see #128222

Hopefully it gets fixed before I leave the office today, otherwise I won’t be able to check into the new cool stuff during my offline weekend.

For the past 5 years I have been following the “Work like you don’t need the money…” principle and trying to work only when it is interesting so that I could enjoy what I do. During this time I haven’t paid almost any attention to an aspect that the value I have created for my employer hasn’t been equal at all to the compensation I have received from the employer or customer. But I have at least gathered some valuable skills during this time ranging from phone system administration to embedded programming.
So.. here comes the thruth..

I am looking for new and cool projects all over the world

If you’re interested, then contact me.

As the side note, I’ve been looking into the next cool thing in web development - Ruby and it still seems a bit scary but I’m making some progress

…because I do not have to pay for it and I can report bugs at no cost unlike users of some other software.. Let’s do a little calculation: when reporting one bug costs $35, then I have saved at least $7490 (I just counted all my reported bugs from b.fd.o, b.gentoo.o and b.g.o and multiplied it with 35). And do not forget I did get the software for free.

Happy GNOME 2.14, released on 15th of March 2006. I did not have time (read: I was just lazy ) to translate the release notes, but at least Estonian language is in the list of official languages for 2.14. As I upgraded to 2.14 as soon as it was possible, I noticed a few minor problems (they shouldn’t be noticeable for regular users :P), butthese have been mostly fixed by now and will be in 2.14.1.
Happy Kernel 2.16.6, released on 19th of March 2006. Yesterday I tried whether suspending works and it did!!! Both suspend to ram and suspend to disk just worked. Even with ati’s proprietary drivers.

And I’ll be back in Tallinn by tomorrow

Hey

I am back… First I upgraded the engine (Wordpress of course) behind this blog. Currently there are some problems, but they will be fixed as I encounter them. You can also let me know if you see something suspicious on this site.

Thanks, Priit