Saturday, October 13, 2012

People still use Pascal? yes and is Growing


Free Pascal and  Delphi/ OO Pascal is growing that is what Tiobe says : if you add them both it should be in the top 10 programming languages displacing Ruby and JavaScript 
1.097+0.839=1.936
Another more credible source is the downloads page on sourcefogre for the Lazarus IDE

We assist on Libre Pascal Renascence of Hacker culture that they don't care about corporate languages like C#/Java

Why ? because Pascal is Modern and insanly Fast and it does have it's own advatages compared with other languages. 
Here are advatages in using the modern Pascal http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.var
I have written my own rants here , feel free to comment
The trend is for typed and more readable languges TypeScript , Python , Ruby ...

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Installing Firebird Active Record driver for Ruby

Here is how to install activerecord-fb-adapter for rails
using the the gem version

gem install activerecord-fb-adapter
Fetching: fb-0.7.*.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: activerecord-fb-adapter-0.7.*.gem (100%)
Successfully installed fb-0.7.*
Successfully installed activerecord-fb-adapter-0.7.*
2 gems installed
That is all You can build it manually if you wish
git clone https://github.com/rowland/activerecord-fb-adapter.git
cd activerecord-fb-adapter
rake gem

ls -lah pkg/activerecord-fb-*

gem install pkg/activerecord-fb-adapter-*.gem 

Successfully installed activerecord-fb-adapter-0.7.*
1 gem installed
Successfully installed 

gem install rails 
So now we are ready to play with Rails on Fire

Update:Rails works with this driver and here is the Rails guide