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		<title>Using Bundler To Create Gems With Rspec</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you want to start gem development, and you want to use bundler to generate your skeleton gem.  Great!   Now what about the tests?  I wanted to know how to add Rspec to my basic gem and get going. Here are the steps I used: bundler gem fooster Then edit the generated Gemfile (fooster/Gemfile) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2011/10/using-bundler-to-create-gems-with-rspec/</link>
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		<title>Using git-svn with remote branches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this as a note to myself, because I always forget how to set this up.   I have found it surprisingly hard and tricky to get  local git branches to map to remote svn branches.   Not sure why this is really, but have put together these notes as to how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2011/04/using-git-svn-with-remote-branches/</link>
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		<title>My Talk on Rails3 for Rails2 Programmers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last nite I gave a presentation at houston.rb about Rails3 for the person doing Rails2 currently.   Lots of folks showed up and the good folks from Squegee bought pizza.   A good time was had by all.  Lots of people wanted a link to the slides so I have included them here]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2010/05/my-talk-on-rails3-for-rails2-programmers/</link>
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		<title>Running HTTPS in your Rails Development Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are building a rails application that requires SSL for parts of your site, you are probably going to use the SSL requirement plugin. But that alone isn&#8217;t going to allow you to run your code in development. You can easily see this after you enable the SSL Requirement plugin (suddenly nothing will work). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2009/09/runnning-https-in-your-rails-development-environment/</link>
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		<title>Announcing the migrate_war Rails plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The MigrateWar Rails plugin makes it easy to create database schema on deployment machines when you deploy via JRuby/War Files. This is especially helpful on Windows machines, where you cannot use Capistrano easily. Capistrano is a powerful deployment tool that is considered &#8216;state of the practice&#8217; by anyone deploying Rails applications to Unixy type systems. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/04/announcing-the-migrate_war-rails-plugin/</link>
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		<title>Ruby on Rails Contractor:   I am Available! (One of the Advanced Rails Recipes Book contributors )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just posted this to craigslist: I am web developer who specializes in Ruby on Rails contracts and works remotely from my home office. Currently looking for new projects, I&#8217;m open to conversations about new contract possibilities. My company is Silverchair Solutions, an agile web development consultancy. I have over 13 years of web development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/04/ruby-on-rails-contractor-i-am-available-one-of-the-advanced-rails-recipes-book-contributors/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m an Author!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok its been awhile since this occurred, but I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention that I have been included as one of the authors of the Pragmatic Studio&#8217;s Advanced Rails Recipes Book. I contributed a chapter on creating Wizards. You can check it out here. Basically I leveraged actsasstate_machine to pull this off. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/04/im-an-author/</link>
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		<title>Using your website url as your OpenID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an OpenId, I have found it useful. But frankly its just another thing that I have to remember. Somthing that I can&#8217;t forget is my website url. What if you could set up some kind of cool forwarding that allows me to use my website url as my OpenID? Well&#8230; you can. Actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/03/using-your-website-url-as-your-openid/</link>
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		<title>Automating Cocoa Deployments with Sparkle and Xcode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who live in the rails world, fantastic tools like Capistrano have made deployment drop-dead simple. And since I do some Cocoa work I found myself wanting some of that same capistrano-esqe love in my Cocoa deployments. The Sparkle framework handles most of this for you, but in its vanilla implementation requires [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/03/automating-cocoa-deployments-with-sparkle-and-xcode/</link>
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		<title>State Transition Diagrams for acts_as_state_machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been using the wonderful acts_as_state_machine plugin for lots of cool stuff in my rails applications. The problem that I have run into though, is visualizing the state transitions that I have created. Typically, when I first learned about state machines back in Electrical Engineering days, we drew cool diagrams with bubbles to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/03/state-transition-diagrams-for-acts_as_state_machine/</link>
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