Todd Huss » Uncategorized http://gabrito.com Anecdotes on Technology Leadership, Ruby, Java, Scala, Cloud Computing, Open-Source, SEO, and Design Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:21:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Mac OS X gem cleanup failing http://gabrito.com/post/mac-os-x-gem-cleanup-failing http://gabrito.com/post/mac-os-x-gem-cleanup-failing#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:04:04 +0000 Todd Huss http://gabrito.com/?p=260 Continue reading →]]> Ruby GemsAfter upgrading to Snow Leopard I started noticing that whenever I would run sudo gem cleanup it would fail with many errors about being unable to uninstall various gems. I ignored it until the list grew unbearably long but the only solutions I could find on the web were to go through one gem at a time. The errors looked like this:

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Attempting to uninstall rails-2.3.5
Unable to uninstall rails-2.3.5:
Gem::InstallError: cannot uninstall, check `gem list -d rails`
...

Following the instructions I then ran gem list -d rails noting the install path for newer gems was now /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 whereas the older gems that cleanup was failing on were in /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8. So the solution was to run cleanup once while overriding GEM_HOME as follows:

sudo sh -c 'GEM_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 gem cleanup'

That allowed cleanup to remove the older gems in the old path and now sudo gem cleanup is once again working.

]]> http://gabrito.com/post/mac-os-x-gem-cleanup-failing/feed 4 Differences between Digg and Reddit http://gabrito.com/post/differences-between-digg-and-reddit http://gabrito.com/post/differences-between-digg-and-reddit#comments Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:10:51 +0000 Todd Huss http://gabrito.com/post/differences-between-digg-and-reddit Continue reading →]]> I wrote a tongue in cheek humor piece on April fools day last year about ditching Java and switching to .BAT. Earlier this year it hit the front page of Reddit which was very exciting since my little server stood up to the pounding pretty well. Then more recently it hit the front page of Digg (but only briefly). Talk about two totally different experiences!

I received lots of positive feedback from folks who found the story on Reddit and got a good laugh out of it. Fast forward a month to being on Digg where in addition to some very nice feedback I also received lots of negative feedback telling me what an idiot I must be for suggesting people switch to .BAT from Java. This guy even blogged about it! Shortly after going up on Digg’s homepage, the link to my story vanished from the homepage, probably from too many users marking my story as factually innaccurate (which of course it is because it’s a joke) ;-) .

I guess it’s not totally surprising given Digg and Reddit’s respective user bases, however, I was still surprised by the marked difference in user response and assumed everyone would realize I was joking!

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