Archive for February, 2009
Debugging ruby backticks
20 February 2009Stolen from Dale’s blog… reposted here for my own reference. Also this link is good for a reference on executing shell commands from ruby.
I needed to knock up a Ruby script recently that orchestrated some external processes using backticks. However something was going wrong and I need to temporarily peek into the inputs and outputs […]
SVN undelete of a directory
6 February 2009Somewhere way back in the history of our project someone (read Partro) decided that we didn’t need a pesky little data folder anymore and decided that it should be deleted. Turns out he was pretty much right because it wasn’t until about 200 revisions later that I noted its absence, so the question was how […]