Archive for July, 2009

Back to a Mac

July 28th, 2009

I’ve recently switched back to using a Mac after many years using Ubuntu.
I much prefer OS X to Ubuntu, mainly because some of the software it has is not available on Linux, such as iTunes, and TomTomHome.
What surprised me is how many essential applications and functions were missing from OS X (10.5.7), when compared to [...]

Offline Gem Server

July 8th, 2009

I’ve had an offline gem documentation server installed for a while on my machine, after following Jason Seifer’s instructions.
Recently, however, when I installed new gems I got the following error:

invalid argument: –fmt=html

This is, I think, because the hanna gem that provides the rdoc template needs to use a html output formatter, which seems to have [...]