Long time no serious news in my blog. I apologize for that and hopefully I have for time in the future to write about new and cool ruby and rails stuff. Until then here is some news on ZenTest, autotest and growl integration for ruby on rails projects.
I wrote about this setup and the things [...]
Attending Euruko 2009 was great! I recommend this conference to every ruby enthusiast. The authors auf braid held a flash talk and tried to demonstrate the power of braid. Unfortunately the didn’t manage to although they typed their commands incredibly fast
Back home I gave braid a try and this tool is great. Before [...]
Before today I was running on rails 2.2.2, but now I need the new rails engine feature so I had to upgrade.Ok, I would have to anyway
It wasn’t that hard.
sudo gem install rails
and renaming application.rb to application_controller.rb did everything required for my development environment. I use hoptoad for error aggregation in production, so [...]
Since my first steps with rails I was used to write rspec tests / specifications. I was never that happy about it. Can’t say exactly why. I think it was just a “personal” thing. About two weeks ago I finally gave shoulda and his buddies a try. So here’s what I have done.
Installation
First I had [...]
Since I set up a rake task which dumps my production database on the server and pipes it through a ssh connection into my local mysql server I had to recognize encoding problems locally. Today I said to myself: “Stop that encoding foo and get this crappy shit running correctly”
After struggling around with server side [...]
Update: check out Karlsruhes’ ruby and rails usergroup for a free ticket sponsored by Software & Support Media!!
RailsWayCon is taking place end of May (25th - 27th) organized by Software & Support Media. As the O’Reilly Rails Conf Europe is not happening in 2009 they helped out a set up this conference for the [...]
the last hour I set up my own git server and finally moved my current project mysedcard.tv to git. You may ask “Setting up a git server … isn’t that much work to do?”. Actually, it’s not.
What happenend: I used git svn to use git locally and svn on my server as I started with [...]
