Here’s a quick little script I wrote up (adapted from this perlmonks post) to show git repository activity as an ascii graph, like so:
The X axis represents a day, with the current day being on the far right. The Y axis is no. of lines added + no. of lines deleted during that day.
I found it hard to find good instructions for installing ruby gems as a non-root user without installing the gem package locally as well. Here’s what I figured out; hopefully this will save someone else some time in the future:
Make a directory for gem installation:
$> mkdir ~/.gems
Set up your .gemrc for gem install-time configuration:
$> cat [...]