Updated 2010-04-04 – The regex in the to_html methos was updated again to do an even better job of preserving whitespace. Updated 2010-03-21 – The regex in the to_html method on the SmugMug class was updated to preserve whitespace. Up until now to post photos from SmugMug I’ve crafted the link and image markup by [...]
I switched the blog to a different back end and a slightly different style. I’m using Hobix (again, I used it back in… 2007?) and have made a bunch of modifications to support what I want to do. I have a fork of (a fork of) the original Hobix project at Github. I also have [...]
I just upgraded to version 1.99 of Capistrano, the remote deployment tool most commonly used for Rails projects. This is a prerelease of Capistrano 2.0 and installed easily with the following commands: sudo gem install highline sudo gem install -s http://gems.rubyonrails.com capistrano Highline is a new (at least on my machine) dependency for Capistrano and [...]
I had a chance to play around with Capistrano this weekend. It’s a cool little tool and it works very well.
Discovered via. Dr. Nic: ZenTest. ZenTest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. ZenTest only works with Ruby and Test::Unit. autotest is a continous testing facility meant to be used during development. As soon as you save a file, [...]
I really should start using Mauricio Fernandez’ rcov code coverage tool for ruby.
Over the past, oh, year and a half or so, I’ve followed the rapid ascension of Ruby on Rails to the top of the web development heap. In the process I read a lot of blog entries, a lot of “Hello World!” introductory articles and a lot of best practice documents. A big part of [...]
I’m playing with http-access2, a Ruby library for programatically accessing web pages. I want to write a web app that sits between people and a privileged admin interface and this seems like it will do the trick. It’s a little slow but I think that’s the SSL talking.