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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Ruby serialport gem.

Ruby-serialport doesn’t play well with RubyGems. Trying to require ‘serialport’ when using RubyGems results in: NameError: (eval):1:in `private_class_method’: undefined method `create’ for class `Class’ from (eval):1 from (eval):1 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’ from (irb):2 The quick fix to get around this is by doing: Kernel::require ‘serialport’ It would be nicer if we could avoid the conflict [...]

Nickel Silver is moving to GitHub.

I’m falling in love with GitHub. To see if this love will last I’ve moved my LocoNet server gem to GitHub from RubyForge. The RubyForge gem still exists (and will continue to do so) but changes will be happening at GitHub (probably permanently). To get the new version of the gem you will need to [...]