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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 […]
Firefox Extensions
I’m in the process of setting up a new computer and I’m trying to remember all the Firefox extensions that I use. This list is mostly for myself, so that I don’t have to think so much the next time around.
FireBug
Web Developer
Delicious Bookmarks
Tab Mix Plus
YSlow
PermaTabs
Resizeable Textarea
I only use these at work where it’s Windows. […]
deploying a gem using capistrano
This is something I wrote to push gems to an internal gem server. It is a simple Capistrano recipe. Here is the Capfile. You can easily move the GemDeployer module into a separate file if you want to reuse it.
module GemDeployer
def deploy(gem_path_glob)
gem = Dir[gem_path_glob].first
unless gem
[…]
hello world and all of that
The start of this weblog completes the first item on my nebulous list of 2008 New Years resolutions. I’ve been a lurker of the interwebs for many years. I’m a programmer going on 7 years. I read a lot of weblogs (148 feeds and counting, yeah, probably too many) and I always follow what the […]