Monthly Archives March 2008

merb_annotate_models

I like the handiness of Dave Thomas’ Rails plugin annotate_models. I’ve been doing some Merb development so I decided to do a quick port of the plugin.

It can be found over at GitHub.

stack: A Ruby Build Tool For .Net Development

This is an introduction to an internal .Net build tool written in Ruby. Although it’s not Open Source I thought some would be interested in hearing about it.

The idea of writing a .Net build tool in Ruby comes up from time-to-time. Most recently, that I’ve seen, Jeremy Miller briefly mentioned the idea. Now that […]

DRY up ActiveRecord specs a bit

These days I use RSpec exclusively. Well, there are those few remaining crufty test/unit tests hanging around but I digress. When writing specs for ActiveRecord models there is a particular pattern I follow. I tend not to use fixtures unless their required. Typically I just new up a model with the required data. If the […]