Ruby on Rails Planet

Created at: 08.03.2010 13:55, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot git heroku highlight ruby testing

I'll just be over here in the corner, trying to write some code.

Public Beta: Deployment Stacks: You now have a choice of Debian and Ruby versions on Heroku.
Smart HTTP Transport - Interesting, setting up your own git server might get easier now.
Smack a Ho.st - Easier testing for Rails apps with subdomains.
Ruby's Metaprogramming Toolbox - An introduction.
Highlight - Syntax highlighting for Rails projects via a plugin that wraps pygments.
Stubbing and Setting Expectations on HTTP Requests Is Now Easy With WebMock - Looks like a potential alternative to fakeweb with a bit more spice.
identity-map - Simple Identity Mapper implementation for Active Record.

Remember kids, sleep is for the weak and sensible.

Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown - The only reason I call the patent system "broken" is that I can't think of a more appropriate word that's fit for polite company.
Git v1.7.0 Release Notes - Time to upgrade again. Note that there are some minor behavior changes.
EZ-CSS - Yes, another CSS framework - but not yetanother grid.
Hoptoad Notifier: Rack and automatic Metal support - Another functionality bump from the Hoptoad folks.
A Visual Git Reference - With boxes and arrows.
query_trace - I pushed out a new version of this gem yesterday.
Rails 3 Beautiful Code - Presentation from Greg Pollack. Personally I am skeptical of "beauty" as a code metric in the working world.
Bundler and I are breaking up - I've seen quite a bit of Bundler hate recently. Maybe it's just that it's not stable enough yet.
Is The Singularity Here Yet? - Check the page source.
Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery - This worked fine for me after I remembered that _delete had been renamed to _destroy in Rails 2.3.5.

Created at: 18.02.2010 12:01, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot git icons jquery moonshine rails

Deadlines are raining on me like snowflakes lately.

VersionControlTools - Somewhat rambling evaluation from Martin Fowler. It's interesting that he chooses git, Mercurial, and svn as the only three to recommend despite plenty of experience with the more "enterprisey" tools.
Icons Etc. - Another big pile of royalty-free icons and images.
Rails/jQuery UI sortables with single UPDATE query - Simple tutorial from Henrik Nyh. The SQL is MySQL-specific, but it's easy enough to write a workable method if you're on a different database.
Smooth Devoperations: Deploying Rails 3 with Moonshine - The Rails Machine guys are committed to making Moonshine work well with Rails 3 while keeping Rails 2 support. Good news all around.
Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook - Sign up for notification when this one comes out. Jeremy McAnally has already done some great Rails 3 blog entries, so this should be super-useful.

Another semi-random walk through my corner of the internet.

ripple - Ruby client for the Riak distributed database.
Cerberus 0.7.5 Released - New version of the Ruby CI server that I'm happiest with at the moment, now with Mercurial support.
GLTerminal - If OS X leaves you pining for the distorted fuzzy green-screen thin clients of yore, this little piece of freeware is the cure.
Turn Off Google Buzz With One Click - Really, the only thing you need to know.
The iPhone obsession - Doomed argument that web devs should care about standards instead of candy.
Easiest Postgres Install Ever - Mac Edition - Script from Wayne Seguin, passed on by Philip Ingram.
Git Autocomplete in Mac OS X - A tiny little bit of shell convenience. If you use the Git for OS X Installer, you already have the script on your drive.
HoudahSpot - Search/Find utility for OS X that actually finds what I'm looking for, unlike Spotlight. Yeah, if I was a Spotlight pro there are probably commands to do all this. It's easier to spend money than time, though.
rake_cap_bash_autocomplete - More autocomplete fun for bash. A bit slow though on my Mac.

It's February, and I've got a team of devs coming available for new work. Happy to chat about any prospective projects you might want done.

Weave 1.0 now available for download - I've been using Weave to sync two copies of Firefox since about 0.2. Works great for me.
rails-upgrade: Automating a portion of the Rails 3 upgrade process - Jeremy McAnally is working on some tools to make the transition smoother. This quickly got blessed as an official plugin.
Benchmarking Rake Tasks and Trivial Rails Testing Optimizations - "My tests take too long" is a common lament. Here's some help.
Colorize - Simple jQuery table formatting plugin.
Announcing Git Pivotal - First steps on a tool to integrate Git with Pivotal Tracker.
CouchDB: The Definitive Guide - Free from O'Reilly.
From Zero to Rails3 on Windows in 600 seconds - For gluttons for punishment.
Rails Star Ratings Plugin Comparison - So you can do the whole stars display-and-click deal.

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