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About blackrat

Paul McKibbin does not exist as either a human or a corporate entity.

Installing and running MacRuby (Ruby 1.9.2) on 32-bit Intel Macs

Posted on September 7, 2011 by blackrat

I still use and develop on a Macbook Pro from March 2006, which has been my daily workhorse since then. I have better machines, but still find it good to use and travel almost exclusively with it, since it is … Continue reading →

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Getting Sikuli Script working with Ruby(JRuby) on the Mac

Posted on March 3, 2011 by blackrat

Sikuli Script is one of only a handful of application that you can use to automate environments such as games, flash websites, or anything that takes a graphical approach to things. For me, getting it to support a Ruby application … Continue reading →

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XML to YML conversion using ruby

Posted on October 13, 2009 by blackrat

I’ve switched from XML to YML as a data language for most of my code, mainly prompted by the ease of ruby/yaml. I had data for a chrononauts game in XML format. Rather than using this data as it was, … Continue reading →

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Recovering from Subversion checksum error corruption

Posted on October 9, 2009 by blackrat

I still use subversion for all my ruby projects, despite the fact that most of the ruby world is moving to git as its main repository. I’m still at the “I’ll try it” stage (see Softies on Rails for the … Continue reading →

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Acts as state machine with legacy database – (rubyist aasm)

Posted on October 9, 2009 by blackrat

One of the (many!) ruby projects I’ve been working on required a ruby interface to a legacy database which contains existing state information in numeric form. I’ve been using aasm for other Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects, and since … Continue reading →

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