Dave, I think hacking on your shell is somewhat "self indulgent". Currently, I'm struggling to get time on any of my other personal crappy projects – Having said that, learning more about the fish environment is very much on my list.
Fish, for those who haven't used it is far superior to bash (and some friends) in regards to user experience, less finger gymnastics. It maps well. On Sep 10, 7:04 pm, David Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > By the way, is everyone really still using bash? It's like PHP to zsh's ... > well, Perl, i guess. > > http://friedcpu.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/zsh-the-last-shell-youll-eve... > > I guess that leaves Fish as the ruby of the shell world (i.e., everyone's in > love with it's syntax, but nobody here seems to know how to make it scale) > ... > > :P > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:34 PM, David Lee > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > I'm just watching from the sidelines here and haven't actually read any of > > the code (yet), but that won't stop me from throwing an uninformed question > > / idea in the ring ... > > > it's possible to set environment variables locally - and we've probably all > > done it - in the form > > > $ RAILS_ENV=test rake db:migrate > > > as distinct from > > > $ export RAILS_ENV=test; rake db:migrate > > > which sets the environment persistently. > > > Is this a helpful train of thought? > > > cheers, > > DL > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> well aware of that, ideally I'd like both as their are times I might want > >> to choose to run my entire system in a different version. But really it's a > >> matter of how do we get any part of RVM working with fish. I'd be happy > >> with > >> a global switching option combined with a piece of my fish_prompt that told > >> me which version my system is currently running... > > >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Nathan de Vries <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>> Symlinking your desired Ruby version would provide a global switch -- > >>> the entire point of RVM is that it "allows you to use multiple > >>> versions of ruby in separate terminals concurrently" (straight from > >>> the website). > > >>> Cheers, > > >>> Nathan de Vries > > >>> On 10/09/2009, at 12:46 PM, Chris Herring wrote: > >>> > I don't think that is all. One of the reasons it is cool is that it > >>> > is shell specific, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be sweet > >>> > to be able to make it more global, then you could hook it into your > >>> > passenger ruby for instance and be able to test your app in the > >>> > browser against whichever the target version will be. > > > -- > > cheers, > > David Lee > > -- > cheers, > David Lee --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
