Kip Strength Training
The kip is a difficult swing dance aerial to get. Because you can only practice it maybe two or three dozen times before you have to call it a day, it tends to make people shy away from it and focus on something easier. I love it though, and I’d love to see the entire swing community be able to get it. That being said, I have some suggestions on how to train for it in the beginning. I’ll break this into three subsections, main types... [Read More...]
Installing Ruby Rails Mysql Gem on Ubuntu
Assuming you have a full working DB installed from source in /usr/local/mysql [install a bunch of stuff] apt-get install ruby rubygems ruby1.8-dev rake rdoc wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/51087/mysql-ruby-2.8.1.tar.gz [extract and cd into that directory] ruby ./extconf.rb --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql make make install gem list --local *** LOCAL GEMS *** mysql (2.7) ~/mysql-ruby-2.8.1# You... [Read More...]
Setting up Ruby on OSX with MySQL
Starting with XCode and a full MySQL install from source. (not mamp) assuming a full install into /usr/local/mysql and a running database. [Become root] [prep/update Ruby] gem update –system gem install rails –include-dependencies export ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386″ gem install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql [Download mysql-ruby-2.8.1 and cd into it, run this, above doesn't seem get install the native driver.] ruby... [Read More...]
