brew install mysql

Is you have installed mysql server already and have a failed mysql gem, then remove the mysql server first [ see]

Do this to install mysql system tables:

mysql_install_db --verbose --user=`whoami` --basedir="$(brew --prefix mysql)" --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp

Install mysql gem:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.15/lib/ --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/5.5.15/include  --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.15/bin/mysql_config

To find out what your machine is. use uname -a

Ok. If you have already read the Devise gem wiki, you wouldn’t be seeing this, if not here is the simple way to do it.
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Book Name: Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2 (Developer’s Library)
Authors: By Tony Hillerson, Daniel Wanja
Link: Amazon link
Table of contents: See Sample Content
Published on: 2009

If you know Rails and Flex, and if you are desperately looking for a book that can guide you to Integrate Flex and Rails, then this is the book to buy. (more…)

We have recently launched the pre-beta version of Dunnitt (http://www.dunnitt.com). Like how Twitter is for micro-blogging, Dunnitt is for micro-collaboration. You can check the screenshots of Dunnitt at http://www.dunnitt.com/one_minute_manual

Thought I would share here some of the simple things we do while we are working on our Sprint release.
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Recently I tried to write the integration tests for a Rails app which uses Authlogic for authentication.
We decided to use RSpec for unit and functional testing, and Webrat + RSpec combo for integration testing. That means Webrat with Rspec without Cucumber. The fun started when we want to integrate webrat + rspec with authlogic.
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I just finished watching the video “Agilists and Architects — Allies not Adversaries” that was presented by Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons during the QCon 2008 San Francisco conference and was published by InfoQ recently.

It was a very interesting presentation and highlights the problems that Architects facing while working on Agile projects. The presenters neatly addresses the problems and the proposes the solutions. (more…)

I recently started using online Mindmap from MindMeister (see https://www.mindmeister.com).
Oh Boy!..this is really cool stuff that was made out with Web2.0.
I feel this is one of the best way to capture combined thought process and communicate with our remotely located teams.
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I usually keep the Scrum Product BackLog (PBL) on an Excel sheet and share it across the project members. It has its own pros and cons.
Some people also use Google docs spreadsheet for the same. I just found (more…)

On 20th April 2009, Venkat Subramaniam will speak on Fallacies of Agile Development at Gandhinagar, Adyar, Chennai.
For registering your free seat, please visit http://chennaiagile.pbwiki.com/20-April-2009-Venkat-Subramaniam.
Hurry, only 21 seat left as of today.

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (http://msme.gov.in/) would be conducting an one day introductory workshop on Cutting Cost Through “Agile” Software Development Methods, on 20th March 2009 at Chennai.
On behalf of Spritle, I will be presenting a topic on “Releasing Quality Software” during the afternoon session.
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