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What I Learned About Humanity from the Survival Video Game, “Rust”.

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Tom Chapin

On un-moderated, free-for-all servers: People steal and kill each other without regard. It is very hard to get ahead initially, but once you reach a […]

Rants and Musings

Rust (game) – AutoHotKey Script – Click Middle Mouse to Run

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Tom Chapin

In the video game, “Rust“, if you want to run you have to hold down both the SHIFT key and the W key at the […]

Programming

How to Re-run RSpec Tests Again After Failures

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Tom Chapin

In the course of working with Selenium and Appium via RSpec tests (while testing iOS apps), I occasionally was running into issues where Appium would […]

Programming

Specifying ruby version and rails version with rbenv when creating a new rails app

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Tom Chapin

To create a new rails project and specify the version of both ruby and rails: $> RBENV_VERSION=2.0.0-p247 rbenv exec rails _4.0.0_ new project-name In this […]

Programming, Tips and Tricks

Resources for Learning Ruby & Ruby on Rails

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Tom Chapin

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been “hitting the books” pretty hard when it comes to Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Here are a […]

Piping find to cp to recursively copy files

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Tom Chapin

Scenario: I have a bunch of font files organized within nested folders (along with all sorts of other stuff like text files). Goal: I want […]

Programming, Tips and Tricks

For All The Redditors Out There

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Tom Chapin

On Reddit.com, there’s a phenomenon known as the “Cake Day“, which is the yearly anniversary of a member’s original sign-up date. When this magical day […]

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