Monday
Sep142009
Double Shot #539
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:39AM
Busy weekend, busier week coming. Hopefully this means I'm headed back towards the "feast" part of consulting.
- Static: a super simple Rails CMS for Heroku - Just about as simple as simple can be. Looks like the next step up from something like Staticmatic for brochure sites.
- Engine Yard And GitHub Transition - Let's hope this doesn't turn into a messy divorce.
- Tracking Down Slow-Running Examples in RSpec - I didn't know RSpec had a built-in profiler. Until now.
- Top 10+ Things .NET Developers Should Know About Ruby - Slide show from Jeff Cohen.
- New Features of Test Unit 2.x - I think it's worth upgrading, but there can be issues. This gist in a Rails project will make it work whether you have 2.0 on the testing machine or not (which is useful when you share the code with other developers).
- coulda - New take on BDD, inspired by Cucumber but with good old methods instead of fancy regex matching.
- Using Facebooker to make a Rails site with Facebook Connect - Best quick intro I've found, though there's plenty of other info out there.
- Find where to index your tables on a Rails app - Elad Meidar is working on solving this via static codel analysis.
- Statsample - Statistical library for Ruby.
- foreigner - Pretty slick schema and migration support for foreign keys in Rails.
- testicles - Yet another testing framework for Ruby.
Reader Comments (1)
Yeah, I did Static mostly because the existing options I found were trying to do a bit to much for my taste. Plus, stuff like Staticmatic, Webby, and Jekyl don't allow you to change the site from the site itself.
With Static, when friends ask me to "make them a website" things are much easier for me. I can set them up with a blank, working site in about 5 minutes. Then, I make them a basic layout and tell them to visit http://w3schools.com/ to figure out the rest for themselves :)