The Blog: June 2010

Jun 28
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Lifting the Tail: Inside Agora Skunk Works

by Aaron Westendorf
We’ve been hard at work for over a year developing the next generation of game integration technology here at Agora, and over the next few months we’ll be releasing some of the code that we’ve developed, discussing some of the challenges we face and how we’re using all the new technology to build the best gaming experience around.

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Jun 24
1

Setting Up a Rails 3 Development Environment

by Tom Quackenbush

Getting started with Rails 3 development is a very straightforward process, granted you have the prerequisite version of Ruby installed on your system. Ruby Version Manager (RVM) is a utility that makes it very easy and painless to switch between Ruby versions while maintaining your system’s stock Ruby installation. RVM not only enables you to switch between Ruby versions, but also maintains distinct gem sets specific to each of those versions which is very helpful when testing out new Rails environments.

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