Pseudo-Random Bits of Data

Modifying Vim Syntax Highlighting

jkit — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:36:53 +0000

Added this to my .vimrc, to remove the annoying underlining of the ‘a’ html element.
hi def linkBlue ctermfg=DarkBlue
hi def link htmlLink linkBlue

Suppress irb output

jkit — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:42:16 +0000

Simply add “;nil” or “;0″ or anything other value you don’t mind seeing, to the end of the command.

>> Person.find(:all);nil
=> nil

Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu

jkit — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:38:13 +0000

I followed selected portions of this howto to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu on a box I administer. Then I tried to follow this howto to get Ruby on Rails; but I hit a snag while trying to install RubyGems. I did the following commands:

sudo ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/usr/local
sudo ruby setup.rb setup
sudo ruby setup.rb install

The solution to this was to export RUBYLIB=/usr/local/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8 which I found at this site.

Case-sensitivity in Vim search

jkit — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:15 +0000

Thanks to Eugene Kashida, I was informed that when searching in Vim you can force a case-sensity search by appending \C to your search; similarly, if appending \c will force a case-insensitive search. For example:

/FooBar\C will find “FooBar” but not “foobar”

/FooBar\c will find both “FooBar” and “foobar”