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Gilles Fabio
Personal blog · gillesfabio.com/blogprogramming
Gilles Fabio's personal blog at gillesfabio.com covers programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “RVM for Pythonistas, virtualenv for Rubyists”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts to compare Ruby and Python tooling, such as gem/RVM/bundler against pip and virtualenv, and to explain packaging for Python newcomers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- RVM for Pythonistas, virtualenv for Rubyists3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-05-12
What Hacker News says?
The jobs are divided a bit differently but the combo of gem/rvm/bundler is matched quite nicely by pip and virtualenv (with virtualenvwrapper adding some nice conveniences) This article covers some of the equivalent jobs using Ruby and Python: http://gillesfabio.com/blog/2011/03/01/rvm-for-pythonistas-v... The article misses covering the freeze command in pip which is great for generating requirements.txt files: pip…
Comment linking /blog/2011/03/01/rvm-for-pythonistas-virtualenv-for-rubyists/
on “Getting Started with Django”Submitted RVM for Pythonistas, virtualenv for Rubyists as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHere is another good comparison post between Ruby and Python packaging: http://gillesfabio.com/blog/2011/03/01/rvm-for-pythonistas-v...
Comment linking /blog/2011/03/01/rvm-for-pythonistas-virtualenv-for-rubyists/
on “Getting Started with Python - Installing Packages”