Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Still hung-over from Global Game Jam 2012 (mini-write-up later) when I went to the RailsInstaller site on a whim.
Noticed that it still isn’t using Rails 3.2. So I decided to update my own to be ahead again.
Hopefully this would be the last RailsFTW version (hoping Luis would be able to convince Wayne to include MySQL to RailsInstaller so I won’t need to this anymore LOL).
I’ve been doing some programming screencasts lately over my Youtube channel. They’re not really “screencasts” ala RailsCasts but more like informal streamed videos that you’d see in Justin.tv/Twitch.tv.
These screencasts were recorded in 720p so it’s a good idea to select a higher resolution then view the videos in full screen or the large player in order for you to read the code properly.
Here I code a hexagonal “game of life”-like cellular automata. Used Ruby, Gosu, and RSpec.
Walking through coding a simple Rails app. Bunch of technologies discussed like Twitter Bootstrap, Heroku, and git.
Going through Project Euler problems via brute force using Java.
Here’s a quick update to this mini-tutorial. Previous parts can be found here and here.
Installing MySQL is so simple that I don’t need to hide it behind the cut. The one in the Ubuntu repositories work just fine:
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1
Note that you will be asked to enter a root password somewhere in the installation.
To wrap up the installation run
$ sudo mysql_install_db
to initialize the installed server and
$ sudo mysql_secure_installation
to secure it.
In mysql_secure_installation, you’ll be asked for your root password and then you’ll asked if you want to change it. Just enter “n” since there’s no reason to change it this early. Then you’ll be asked if you want to do some things to secure the database which is, of course, what we want to do so just hit Enter for each question to choose the default answer (“Y”).