Probably most of the time you would like to skip ri and RDoc installation while installing some new gems, specially on production server.

I do like to skip ri and RDoc documentation while installing gems on my development machine, because it takes more time to generate ri and RDoc then actual installation of gem.

We can skip rdoc and ri documentation while installing a gem by:

I am sure that you would not like to give –no-ri and –no-rdoc every time you install a gem. To avoid this situation, you can create/update $HOME/.gemrc file with following option:

Now every time you install a gem, it will skip installation of ri and RDoc for the gem.

My .gemrc file looks like:

Does anybody over there have any idea about any library that facilitates us to implement google maps like image browsing?

Basically I want to implement something like where a user can drag drop large image to view specific portion.

Today, I had a basic talk about apache’s rewrite rules. Slides are below:

Guys, I received a mail today that there will be a new hosting service launching soon. They said that it makes easier to deploy your applications. Whether its Ruby on Rails, Django, LAMP or your choice of Linux Distribution, its a ready-to-go solution. For more information please visit http://www.webbynode.com/

I am signing up there as a beta tester. Lets see how webby-node can help rails community by its services.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Funday and Sunday.

Surprised, This is not a typo. Saturday is now converted to Funday. How??? Why??? When???

Geekeerie has started organizing new kind of events in India. One of those kinds of event is Ruby Funday. Which is a full day pure geek ruby event. Where geeks will show their code, tricks and funde .

The first Ruby Funday is scheduled for 22, Nov 2008 at Noida, India. For more details please visit their site(beta).