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ERROR: While executing gem … (Zlib::BufError) in windows

andrew.kalek May 21, 2009 Windows, gem 2 Comments

So today I’m trying to update my gems and I get this error on random gems like rspec-rails but rspec updated fine.

I googled the issue and found great articles on the error, unfortunately none of them really worked. This brought me to posting what I did to fix it the error.

First, based on dontrepeatyourself, I updated to the latested gem system (version 1.3.3).
gem update –system
Based on what I’ve read on the site, it fixed the issue for a lot of people (keep in mind this is an article from 2007) but it didn’t fix my issue. … Continue Reading

Removing a remote git branch

andrew.kalek May 06, 2009 Git Comments Off

I was showing someone how great git is using the new version of MSYSgit (version 1.6.2.2.1669.g7eaf8) and found out that calling git push –all will push ALL branches, even if they don’t exist on the remote server. So I ended up pushing a development branch that was very unstable and wanted to remove it. Luckily a quick google search pointed me to this great blog post: .liferc.
Reading this, very to the point, post I was a little confused on what is my repository. So I figured I’d clearify a bit by what you need to do.
Say you … Continue Reading