Jekyll2024-12-10T19:18:36+00:00https://ap5.dev/feed.xmlAnna Kudriavtsevanna's personal websiteBootstrapping Rails on NixOS2023-01-04T04:59:27+00:002023-01-04T04:59:27+00:00https://ap5.dev/blog/2023/01/04/bootstrapping-rails-on-nixosrecently tried to start a Rails project on NixOS, realized that there was no obvious way to start a new one, even though it seemed fairly straightforward to work on an existing project.

i figured out a fairly simple process. i use direnv and flakes, and this process does too.

first, create a project directory. enter it. create the following two files to set up a trivial flake:

flake.nix 
{
    description = "TODO";

    inputs.flake-utils.url = github:numtide/flake-utils;

    outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils }:
        flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system: let
            pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
        in {
            packages.default = pkgs.callPackage ./default.nix;
        });
}
default.nix 
{ stdenv, ruby_3_1 }:

stdenv.mkDerivation {
    pname = "TODO";
    version = "TODO";

    nativeBuildInputs = [];
    buildInputs = [ ruby_3_1 ];
}

then, create an .envrc with the following content:

.envrc 
use flake
layout ruby

run direnv allow.

next, write a bootstrap Gemfile:

Gemfile 
source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails'

install locally by running bundle install --path=vendor (ignore the warnings for now)

finally, run bundle exec rails install . and, when asked, overwrite the bootstrap gemfile with the upstream default.

]]>AnnaHello, world2022-08-09T23:57:36+00:002022-08-09T23:57:36+00:00https://ap5.dev/blog/2022/08/09/hello-world-1hi! this is my first blog post… ever.

the idea here is to talk about things i’m working on. i have a lot of various projects that i never really share with anyone, so this might be a good way to start doing that.

updating this website to add this blog section has been mildly infuriating. the entire ruby ecosystem for web stuff rose and fell with the dhh/rails hype cycle, and nothing has really moved since 2015. this website is built with jekyll, which is a really nice static page generator, but no one does anything interesting with it, and third-party plugins, including the one for the templating language i used to write it, are mostly abandoned and break with new enough versions of the tool.

in general, writing things in ruby is a mixed bag. it’s the programming language i’m most fluent in, by far, and it has some of the cleanest design i’ve ever seen. i think it’s one of the only nicely designed OOP languages. but due to said rails hype cycle issue, there’s not really much of a community around it anymore. all the discussion places are dead or move really slowly, and there just… aren’t libraries for things. i was looking for something like colorio to help me implement a certain part of my discord bot, but nothing like this exists. i guess no color scientists care about ruby. (if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.)

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