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Last one of these before my tiny Christmas break.
I seem to be hanging out in #rubyonrails on IRC these days…mikeg1a if you’re hunting for me there.
- Rails Rumble 2008 - If you’ve got October 18-19 free, there’s another “build an application in a weekend” contest coming up.
- Using hoptoad in open source project deployments - A general approach to keeping a separate deploy branch in git to hold confidential information.
- Rails Take Five - Five Questions with Karmen Blake - Another in the Five Runs series of Rails interviews.
- RubyGems 1.3.0 - You might want to go slower than me on installing this version; it deprecates some code that Rails uses, resulting in annoying warnings on script/generate operations.
- Replacing Braid or Piston (for Git) with 40 Lines of Rake - An approach to doing subtree merge control for Rails plugins. If you use this, make sure to include a trailing slash on the destination when doing a git:subtree:merge operation. Took me forever to figure that out.
- Status Update: Merb 1.0 - Coming October 11.
- Creating Valid Records with Populator and Faker - For filling up your test database with stuff.
- RR - Test double framework for ruby code. If your current method of writing mocks and stubs is too verbose, this will help. (It has other good features too).
- TankEngine - Plugin to build iPhone-optimized Rails user interfaces.
- Gash - Access a git repository as a ruby hash. Wacky. (via RubyFlow)
Up before dawn with the child who slept through dinner. Fortunately, I’m an early riser.
- iphone-universal - CSS/HTML framework for iPhone web applications.
- Understanding map and reduce - Another tutorial on collection-gobbling functions. I think these might be the pons asinorum of Ruby.
- Adhearsion - Ruby-based virtual PBX management layer.
It was a working weekend for me, but apparently a writing weekend for lots of other folks:
- OpenX ad server API with Ruby - I could have used this a while ago.
- Little green friend - Thoughtbot is getting ready to introduce a web-based replacement for the ExceptionNotifier plugin, called hoptoad. Looks interesting.
- Inept Recruiter - The story of a technical recruiter who managed to spawn an entire Rails dev mailing list through poor use of the cc: field. I had my own inept recruiter yesterday - wanted to hire me to work at Microsoft. Um, no.
- If you work for Apple, we need your help… - The lockdown of the iPhone extends to blocking book authors. Bah.
- Authenticate like SSO with ActiveResource - One approach to letting one Rails app provide authentication services for another. I don’t think we’ve see the end of this discussion yet.
- Blueprint 0.7 - Looking for a CSS framework. It seemed like investigating the most widely-known one was a good starting point. And indeed, using it is pretty simple.
- Bitbucket - Free (and paid) hosting for Mercurial repos. Not that I’m looking to learn another source-code management system right now, but it’s good to know about.
- Blueprint Grid CSS Generator - Useful adjunct to Blueprint when you don’t want or need 24 columns.
- Blueprint CSS 101 - Good (though slightly dated) overview.
- EditorKicker - Rails plugin to open your text editor to the affected file when an error happens in Rails dev.
- WICE Grid - Fancy grid/table control plugin for Rails views.
Happy July 4th - a day I can catch up a bit while email is quiet, I hope.
- Programmer Competency Matrix - This one has been going around. I think the basic idea that you can measure a developer’s competency by this sort of checkoff list is nonsense, though; it tells us more about the particular prejudices of the author than some Platonic ideal of a programmer.
- Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest - Does Dr. Nic ever sleep?
Working on two site launches, tidying up code…life is busy & interesting. I just wish I could get away from the sysadmin nonsense.
- Firebug 1.2b1 - The new version (suitable for FF3) just moved up from alpha. Get it here.
- AT&T Coverage Viewer - Take a peek here if the siren song of iPhone 2.0 is already calling to you. Alas, AT&T appears no more interested in bringing 3G to Evansville than Sprint is. What the heck, there are only 300K folks in the area.
Next I need to dig into multiple file uploads for a Rails app. This may or may not be fun.
- HoboFields - Rails migration generator that lets you annotate models instead of writing your own migratios. (via Ruby Inside)
- Announcing: Feather - Merb-based blogging software.
- Introducing the uses_connection plugin: Intended to let multiple Rails apps use the same database.
- Rails development for iPhone with rails-iui - Plugin to make some of the required styling and plumbing simpler.
I really don’t like being in a situation where I don’t know whether the tests are bad or the code is bad.
- Use attr_protected or we will hack you - How to tighten up security on your user models.
- A three finger salute to git - Combining the latest “swipe” gestures on Mac touchpads with git commands.
- iPhone SDK Bug Filing - Rogue Amoeba appears to be leading the charge to make the iPhone a more open system. Good luck with that.
- SVN Externals are Evil; Use Piston or Braid - Why you don’t want to keep your plugins in your repo as externals.
- Braid - Like piston, but can handle SVN or git repos.
It’s safe to say that I’m not looking for more work at this point. When it rains, it pours.
- SCO: Will the Fat Lady Ever Sing? - Now that I’m writing for OStatic, I had a chance to get my own kicks in on the rotting corpse of SCO.
- iPhone Dev Center - Even though I have no concrete ideas, yesterday’s announcements made me interested in iPhone programming. Probably the effect of the reality distortion field combined with the $100 million number. But hey, I did just learn XCode and Cocoa.
It’s too early in the morning to attempt to say anything really meaningful here, so I’ll just pass on a few links instead.
- TextAreaWithStatus 1.0 released - Automagically add those “you have x characters remaining” messages to textareas in Rails. I actually have an application cooking right now that can benefit from this, so this saves me scouting out the small amount of Javascript involved.
- iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2 - I don’t personally have the slightest interest in owning an iPhone, but Rails 2 magic makes this pretty easy.
- Rails 2 Upgrade Notes - Courtesy of Slash Dot Dash. If your code is in good shape, upgrading an existing application may not be too hard. If your code is in bad shape, well, who’s to blame?
- Faker - Ruby library for generating fake but plausible names, addresses, phone numbers, and so on. (via Ruby Inside)
- Hobo 0.7 released - Another round of this rapid design extension to Rails.
- WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License - A sort of reduction ad absurdum for the endless open source licensing debates.
- Really Simple History 0.6 goes public - Javascript library to take care of bookmarking and the back button in Ajaxy applications. Another one for the “I should investigate this some day” list.
