Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby Next Thursday

Just want to say hi to everyone before I randomly turn up to this! I've never done anything community but figured it was time I started. Looking forward to the talks and meeting everyone. Dyson On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:39:00 UTC+11, adz wrote: > > Just want to say 'thanks' for the recor

[rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Hi everyone I'm planning to switch my development machine from Windows to Macintosh. Is a MacBook Air (with 4GB memory) sufficient for Rails development? The tech specs are better than my current Windows laptop, which works fine for me, but I've never developed on a Mac so I'm not sure if shoul

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Definitely. I was using mine and it was more than adequate (and older 2010 model) with 4GB and 256GB. They are great dev machines. The only issue is if you need to run a lot of VMs for testing IE and such on it. Other than that, no qualms about it whatsoever (other than the fact it just died in Ton

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Hey Rich, while yes, you'd be fine with an Air for Rails development, I found the new rMBP 15" to be the best laptop I ever had. It's light, thin, and is seriously fast. So unless mobility is *really* crucial for you, I'd go for a rMBP. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Rich Buggy wrote: > Hi

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Do you find that 4GB of RAM is enough when you have an SSD? I had 4GB in my Macbook, but no SSD, and I upgraded it to 8GB because it was regularly hitting swap and just bugging the crap out of me. I'm thinking of one client app in particular that can run up to 1GB easily when you run the test su

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

I have a MBP 2009 (8Gb), MBP Retina (16gb), and MB Air 2011 (i7 8Gb) ... The Air is by far the best of all of them for Rails dev... I love the screen on the MBP Retina, but the extra weight makes the Air much more enjoyable to use when I'm anything other than stationary I can pick the Air up with

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Rich Also depends on what editor you like to use. If you are planning on using something like RubyMine you will suffer with 4GB of RAM. For Sublime, VIM, etc you will be fine. Sebastian Rich Buggy 25 October 2012 10:26 AM Hi everyone I'm planning to switch my

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

SSD is a complete must. I'm on a loaner older MBP at the moment and the HDD is *killing* me I <3 my 4GB MBA but was intending to grab an extra 4GB when I purchased the new one. D On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Sebastian Porto wrote: > Rich > Also depends on what editor you like to use. If

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Hi Rich, My only machine is an 11" Air (one revision old, i.e. 1.8GHz i7, 4GB RAM). I'd fully recommend it as a primary development box. In particular, 4GB is plenty for my workload (multiple Sublime projects & shells, browsers, mail, and the rest). This is what my RAM profile looks like after

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

I have a Mac Air 11", and the difference the size and weight makes is enormous. Basically, I can throw my laptop in my backpack and not even have to think about whether I need it or not [1]. Previously, with my slab of a 15", I'd have to think long and hard if I wanted to lug that thing around all

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Funnily enough, my only beef with the older MBA I had was the battery life. I'd be lucky to get 3 hours out of the thing, and I really felt like I need something that can hit 7-8 hours (enough for the majority of a long haul flight). Especially with an Ipad topping 10 hours, it drives me nuts when

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

4GB is enough, but given the RAM is soldered onto the main board, you can't upgrade it later. The extra 4GB should be around $100, I'd get it anyway :). Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

I run a 3 year old MBP 13" and am upgrading soon. But this machine is still going strong. I'd beware of settling for low RAM. RAM is one of the easiest ways to keep a machine alive after years of use. While mine isn't snappy, I happily chug away with: * 2-3 Browsers * Virtual Machine * P

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Just because it *is* topical for me right at the moment as I need to drop a chunk of cash after my lappie died in Tonga... How many people are using the 11" MBA as their primary development machine? I've been thinking I might do that. Doesn't save me much in terms of cash, but like the idea of the

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

It depends on what you're running. I often head down the road to my local and do a battery's worth of hacking. If I left all my apps open I doubt I'd get that much, but if I quit the stuff I'm not using (leaving just sublime/terminal/safari) and make sure the brightness isn't too high then yeah

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

I'm going to pipe up here with a counter argument. Buy an ultrabook. Just as light and portable as a mac, just as easy to develop on. Battery life is great and even with 8gb, it's going to be cheaper than a mac. Richard On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Ben Hoskings wrote: > It depends on wha

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

And what, nuke windows and install linux or something?... =p On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Richard McGain wrote: > I'm going to pipe up here with a counter argument. > > Buy an ultrabook. Just as light and portable as a mac, just as easy to > develop on. Battery life is great and even with 8

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

Let's not go down the Mac-vs-PC path :) No one's going to convince anyone of anything. I'm sure the ultrabook is a great machine. It's all down to personal preference: e.g. for me, my priority is that I want to run OS X, and I like using hardware that it's been tested to run on. Whether I'm pay

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

I am. I use it about 50/50 stand alone and driving a 27" thunderbolt monitor in my office, or the kids iMac at home (as a monitor) I have the tricked out 4GB model and it does go to swap, but you barely notice. Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlogic.com.au 0413 777 771 On 25/10/2012, at 11:50

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby Next Thursday

Hi Justin, hi Tommy, Sadly, I am not well enough today to make it to the meetup – so I have to cancel my talk :( I am very sorry about that. I am very happy to talk on the next meetup though, since I'd love to speak about the topic. Cheers, Florian On Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:58:21 UTC+

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby Next Thursday

No problem, we have a backup plan involving Mario Visic, will add you to the list for next month! Justin On 25/10/2012, at 1:22 PM, Florian Hanke wrote: > Hi Justin, hi Tommy, > > Sadly, I am not well enough today to make it to the meetup – so I have to > cancel my talk :( I am very sorry ab

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby Next Thursday

Thanks Justin! Have fun :) On Thursday, 25 October 2012 13:27:22 UTC+11, Justin French wrote: > > No problem, we have a backup plan involving Mario Visic, will add you to > the list for next month! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oc

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

First, thank you to everyone who replied. Unfortunately my time and budget limitations really only leave me with two off the shelf choices: - 13" MacBook Air with 4GB - 15" MacBook Pro (also 4GB but can be upgraded later) I preferred the Air because it was lighter but was worried that 4GB w

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby Next Thursday

Hi Tommy, If you're interested to play with it, I can recommend you the "cod" Ruby gem, see examples here: http://kschiess.github.com/cod/tutorial/pipes.html#a3 Cheers, Florian On Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:58:21 UTC+11, tojofo wrote: > > As a Taswegian I generally can't make these events

[rails-oceania] Splunk

I'm currently parsing some large log files and populating a rails db with 'key' pieces of information from those logs via ActiveResource. They're not 'web logs', and each line can have totally different data (including how the data is structured), so most of the tools I see around aren't applicable

Re: [rails-oceania] Splunk

I haven't worked with splunk since it first came out in 2006 or so. I know mainly that it's quite expensive. Have you checked out logstash? http://logstash.net/ We need to pull in some log file aggregation & management at BikeExchange, so I'll be interested to see where this thread goes. On Thu,

[rails-oceania] Re: Splunk

Also grok filters will probably be a good fit for your parsing of the log files .. http://logstash.net/docs/1.1.3/filters/grok On Thursday, October 25, 2012 2:04:26 PM UTC+11, Craig Read wrote: > > I'm currently parsing some large log files and populating a rails db with > 'key' pieces of info

Re: [rails-oceania] Splunk

I've been using logstash + elasticsearch for a while now with gridinit.com rolling my own front end to search the data. The tire gem is useful for this. Quite frankly I love logstash + elasticsearch. The latter scales/distributes fairly well (in same geo area) I also implemented a similar setup

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

I have used 11" Airs for all my development since the first generation. The difference in weight really makes it a no-brainer to take everywhere with you. The older generations were a bit lightweight on specs for any Java development or things like that, but the newest generation is very powerful w