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I followed this nice guide Connecting to MSSQL with Ruby on Ubuntu - lambie.org until I ran in the following errors...
This is one possibility to do this. There are other and maybe even better ways to do this.
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Nice article to educate your non-geek girlfriend/boyfriend about the joys of programming.
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Install libreadline: sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev Reinstall the ruby and tell rvm where to find readline
Bundler 1.1 has been released. With this version you no longer need to wait for this: Fetching source index…
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Online tool to test how a site behaves in popular desktop, tablet and phone resolutions.
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If you need to debug Analytics tracking, consider using this chrome extension. It will replace the tracking code with a...