Teascript goes live

I’m proud to announce that Teascript went live early last week. It’s been a long several months since originally conceiving the idea, building the app, beta testing, and deploying but now it’s finally ready for prime time. Teascript is a Rails application that makes it easy to design and build … Continue reading

RailsConf registration is open

RailsConf registration is open. Time to scramble! From what I understand one-third of the seats are already taken. I’ll be speaking at the conference this year. Should be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. See you there.

Montastically cool

I have a web site I’ve been working on that tends to go down at odd times during the night. It’s an issue with the web host, and due to financial constraints my client is not willing to relocate the site anytime soon. So I’m stuck with having to log … Continue reading

Dave’s EuroRailsConf keynote

Dave Thomas’ keynote from last year’s EuroRailsConf is now online. It’s about 45 minutes long and well worth watching. Dave discusses terrorism, risk, and how it relates to Rails. This really scratched an itch for me because I’m in a work situation right now where I’m dealing with a great … Continue reading

Rails test results without the cruft

Ever notice the cruft you get when running Rails tests from the command line? It’s horrible, especially if your project has more than a dozen test files: /opt/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test “/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb” “test/unit/activity_test.rb” “test/unit/address_test.rb” “test/unit/application_helper_test.rb” “test/unit/course_calculations_test.rb” “test/unit/course_test.rb” “test/unit/course_type_test.rb” “test/unit/credit_hour_test.rb” “test/unit/email_test.rb” “test/unit/exam_test.rb” “test/unit/gender_test.rb” “test/unit/grade_test.rb” “test/unit/level_test.rb” “test/unit/notifier_test.rb” “test/unit/numeric_test.rb” “test/unit/obfuscator_test.rb” “test/unit/order_test.rb” “test/unit/school_test.rb” “test/unit/string_test.rb” “test/unit/student_test.rb” “test/unit/transcript_test.rb” … Continue reading

Port of the Ocadia theme to Mephisto

I began poking around the intriguing Rails-based Mephisto blogging engine this weekend. While the app itself looks quite promising, there is a noticeable absence of themes for it. I’m sure this will change, but in the meantime I thought I’d make my own contribution. The particular blog I’m converting originally … Continue reading