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Ruby Gems: undefined method `refresh’

February 22nd, 2007 mike Comments off

If you’re getting:

Updating installed gems...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x1380250>

you need to remove your source_cache. Look in ~/.gem and in your site directory. Mine is in:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/
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Ruby Gems: undefined method `refresh’

February 22nd, 2007 mike Comments off

If you’re getting:

Updating installed gems...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x1380250>

you need to remove your source_cache. Look in ~/.gem and in your site directory. Mine is in:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/
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Ruby Gems: undefined method `refresh’

February 22nd, 2007 mike Comments off

If you’re getting:

Updating installed gems...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x1380250>

you need to remove your source_cache. Look in ~/.gem and in your site directory. Mine is in:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/
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Jet Blue CEO Apologizes on YouTube

February 20th, 2007 mike Comments off

When you mess up, you stand up and say you’re sorry.

Kudos to JetBlue Airways founder and CEO David Neeleman for this.

Plus it’s really cool to see it on YouTube:

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Linked in, but nothing is happening

February 20th, 2007 mike Comments

My current LinkedIn Network is somewhere around 235,000 people out of the 9 million on the network.

WOW. 235,000 people. I wonder if one of them is Kevin Bacon…

That’s great and all, but there is nothing, and I mean nothing meaningful going on as a result of that incredible number.

I have about 10 valid business ideas(and about 100 others that might work) that I don’t currently have time or money to seriously work on. 235,000 people SHOULD be able to help with that, but there is no easy way to recruit help from that huge pool of people.

I can advertise a job opening, but that’s not much help in the pure entrepreneurial space. I can find a classmate, but I don’t really care about that either.

My huge LinkedIn Network which is:

100 percent

is broken and not working FOR me.

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Easy Rails on a Mac

February 7th, 2007 mike Comments off

Dave Benjamin just updated his step by step guide to install Rails on a Mac.

Mongrel + Ruby + Rails + Mac = Yum.

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Vaporware by another name is still vaporware

February 7th, 2007 mike Comments off

I just had the funniest conversation with a “Sr. Director of …” at a large company. I had inquired about an SDK they have outlined on their website. He emails back and says:

“It’s not a generally available product at this time.”

I reply (via email): “So it’s vaporware…?”

And in a classic “Sr VP (insert rest of inflated title here)” I get something like:

“It does exist … customers (blah blah blah) … However, it’s not fully QA’ed and our organization isn’t staffed to support it…”

Me: “That’s called vaporware.”

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