Flashes of Panic

Due largely to this post, I’ve spent some off-and-on time over the last eight weeks trying to make a particular obstinate Ruby library compile and install on my Mac. (Remember my adventures in Fortran?) Tonight I finally managed it, though I did wind up performing the software installation equivalent of getting in under the hood and banging around with a hammer.

I think the reason I finally succeeded tonight was that last night I gave up, opened an Ubuntu virtual machine in Parallels, and installed Ruby, Rails, the relevant library, and a working copy of my application there, resigned to doing all my developing and testing in a virtual machine.

Now I need to confront my deficient understanding of linear algebra.

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