Ben Hoskings and I will be giving a talk about Fish at the next Railscamp (we just thought of this) if anyone is interested and we'll both be more than willing to get anyone started with a great set of dot-files and how-tos!
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ben Schwarz <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
