Articles tagged as “linux”

How to reduce the size of your VMs

As the host OS I use Windows 8 (just upgraded to 8.1), well why ? one might ask.Is rather simple: Steam and after some dreadful searching and configuring tools I managed to install the basics for writing and deploying code: Vim, Git, PuTTy and a decent console replacement like Console2 [0].

Of course those aren't eno ...

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Shedding some light into UUID version 4 in Ruby and Rails

Ruby's standard library and Rails's PostgreSQL adapter use by default version 4 UUIDs. This can be changed in Rails migrations via:

default: 'uuid_generate_v1()'

param whereas Ruby's stdlib only supports version 4.

Another interesting difference is in the implementations:

In the Ruby's s ...
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