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.
Mike Clark made a recent post on his blog about how to handle Rails versions with Capistrano. Very nice stuff. I’ve put his code samples to immediate use with an app I’m preparing to convert to Rails 1.2.1. I’ve run into some trouble this week, though, as I want to … Continue reading
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 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
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
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
A friendly word of advice: don’t leave empty test fixtures in your Rails projects. In some situations, it can cause unexpected test failures that are quite nasty to track down.
This is something funny that I think you might enjoy. My brother David and I had some spare time over Christmas to do something we’ve wanted to do ever since we saw Scary Mary on YouTube: edit together a horror trailer for Frank Capra’s classic film It’s a Wonderful Life. … Continue reading
Do you routinely test your code? Are you using rcov to run code coverage reports for your tests? If you aren’t, you should be. rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby that is available as a Gem or a Rails plugin. It can generate text or HTML reports outlining … Continue reading
Creating mesh networks sounds like a really cool idea. The free software released by CUWiN is supposed to make it easy to do just that. Theoretically, if enough people were doing this, I could drop my Road Runner service. I wonder how long it will take for wireless networking to … Continue reading