Author Archives: Jason Meridth

About Jason Meridth

Continuously learning software developer trying to not let best be the enemy of better

LosTechies welcomes Scott Gillenwater

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Jason Meridth

Due to Joe welcoming his new baby boy into the world recently, he’s asked me to introduce you all to Scott Gillenwater, a new addition to our group. Scott works with both Joe and I at Rackspace where he is … Continue reading →

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Git tracking branches

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Jason Meridth

I have encountered this message multiple times when dealing with Git: ~/code/blog/armmer.github.com(master) $ git pull You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you want to merge with, and ‘branch.master.merge’ in your configuration file does not tell me, … Continue reading →

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Git reset, checkout & "bare double dash", and revert

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Jason Meridth

UPDATE: Please make sure to read Alexander’s comments on git rebase –interactive UPDATE: If you need to unstage a file prior to your first commit: $ git rm –cached filename Thanks to Sean Chambers for tweeting about this   Some … Continue reading →

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Refspec matches more than one

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Jason Meridth

I was trying to push to a canonical repository this morning and got the following error: $ git push origin master error: src refspec master matches more than one. error: failed to push some refs to ‘ssh://user@host/srv/git/repo’ This happened because … Continue reading →

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Git post-merge hook to auto-fire rails migrations

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Jason Meridth

I saw Scott Bellware recently write on twitter: for christmas, i really want a git hook to detect if an update has changes in the db/migrations folder Cory Foy, Aaron Jensen, and myself all responded in turn. I think Cory … Continue reading →

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Git – Suspicious Patch Lines

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Jason Meridth

DISCLAIMER: This is only relevant if you or someone contributing to your project are doing cross-platform development. If you are typically just developing on Windows, you should be able to keep the config options set to false. The Problem While … Continue reading →

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Pair Programming with Screen

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Jason Meridth

  I’ve decided, once again, to make the jump back to VIM full-time. It will help my bash-fu become stronger and also ensure that I can pair program with any other dev. TextMate is awesome for personal development, but using NERDTree (example) and vim.rails (cheat sheet) … Continue reading →

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Review of "Agile Coaching" by PragProg press

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Jason Meridth

Cross-posted from my github pages blog.  Rachel Davies, one of the author’s was kind enough to comment there. My manager let me borrow his copy of Pragmatic Programmer’s Agile Coaching. I’ve read a good number of Agile process and management … Continue reading →

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“Bad Interpreter: No Medium” error when running Ruby from Git Bash

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Jason Meridth

I opened my Windows VM last night for the first time in months to finally work on a .NET project from Github.  When I found out I needed the rspec gem installed (I’m normally a shoulda guy), I decided to … Continue reading →

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Moving servers

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Jason Meridth

To our readers, We wanted to give you all a heads-up that we will be moving servers tomorrow evening, October 3rd, 2009.  We plan to turn off all comments at 8 PM CST.  The migration will begin at 9 PM … Continue reading →

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