Rails - Jun 2005 - somewhat OT: your development environment

Hey all,

I''ve almost finished reading the complete Rails Betabook, which was an
absolute joy. (I''ll have a review up shortly once I get a domain from
textdrive + typo) Anyway, it made me realize I am a programmer living
in the stone age! I''ve always heard of unit tests, functional tests,
and test driven development, but never saw its potential until after
reading the testing chapter.

This got me into exploring the other areas of a development lifecycle
and the tools a programmer uses to assist in his job. I really want to
start doing things "the right way" and was wondering what tools
everyone uses. It embarrases me to say this, but I''ve never used
anything like Subversion or bugtracking software.

So I was wondering, what do you guys use? I am hoping to catch up to
speed with Subversion (I hear its better than most), and am looking
for some sort of sophisticated bugtracking software.  Besides these
two, are you guys using anything else?

Thanks for the help,

Jin

> So I was wondering, what do you guys use? I am hoping to catch up to
> speed with Subversion (I hear its better than most), and am looking
> for some sort of sophisticated bugtracking software.  Besides these
> two, are you guys using anything else?
> 
My toolchain:

- vim and scite editor for coding and html/css design
- irb and Firefox with a load of developer extensions for debugging
- postgresql db / psql client
- CVS (Subversion coming soon) for version control
- Bugzilla for bug tracking
- several platforms (Windows and UNIX) as OS

The command line rules in my development process and I''m seriously
charmed by
the fact that RoR doesn''t interfere with that :-)

Best regards,
Bas

What does the RoR website use to track bugs? I like that ticket
system. How about ruby-forge?

Thanks for the info Bas, will check out.

Jin

On 6/1/05, Bas van Klinkenberg
<lists-JQ6x5Nlb7DGNzEXqMhSRc45ogaMWVTX7Zkel5v8DVj8@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> > So I was wondering, what do you guys use? I am hoping to catch up to
> > speed with Subversion (I hear its better than most), and am looking
> > for some sort of sophisticated bugtracking software.  Besides these
> > two, are you guys using anything else?
> >
> 
> My toolchain:
> 
> - vim and scite editor for coding and html/css design
> - irb and Firefox with a load of developer extensions for debugging
> - postgresql db / psql client
> - CVS (Subversion coming soon) for version control
> - Bugzilla for bug tracking
> - several platforms (Windows and UNIX) as OS
> 
> The command line rules in my development process and I''m seriously
charmed by
> the fact that RoR doesn''t interfere with that :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> Bas
> 
> 
>

- SciTE for text editing
- MySQL or PostgreSQL for the database (I prefer MySQL for smaller 
projects, easier to deploy)
- Windows (Soon to be replaced with a well known fruit)
- Firefox with Web Developer add-on
- irb
- Subversion

SIMEN BREKKEN / this path leads to the gates of madness.



Jin Lee wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I''ve almost finished reading the complete Rails Betabook, which was
an
>absolute joy. (I''ll have a review up shortly once I get a domain
from
>textdrive + typo) Anyway, it made me realize I am a programmer living
>in the stone age! I''ve always heard of unit tests, functional
tests,
>and test driven development, but never saw its potential until after
>reading the testing chapter.
>
>This got me into exploring the other areas of a development lifecycle
>and the tools a programmer uses to assist in his job. I really want to
>start doing things "the right way" and was wondering what tools
>everyone uses. It embarrases me to say this, but I''ve never used
>anything like Subversion or bugtracking software.
>
>So I was wondering, what do you guys use? I am hoping to catch up to
>speed with Subversion (I hear its better than most), and am looking
>for some sort of sophisticated bugtracking software.  Besides these
>two, are you guys using anything else?
>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>Jin
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>  
>

Jin,

They use trac (www.edgewall.com/trac)

Trac does many other things in addition to bug tracking:

As mentioned in ther page:

    * An integrated system for managing software projects
    * An enhanced wiki
    * A flexible web-based issue tracker
    * An interface to the Subversion revision control system

I have never used it myself, but it looks pretty cool.

On 6/1/05, Jin Lee <jinslee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> What does the RoR website use to track bugs? I like that ticket
> system. How about ruby-forge?
> 
> Thanks for the info Bas, will check out.
> 
> Jin
> 
-- 
Eduardo Fernández Corrales

On 6/1/05, Eduardo Fernandez Corrales
<eduardo.fernandez-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Jin,
> 
> They use trac (www.edgewall.com/trac)
Just wanted to add that Textdrive will install Trac for you.  It''s
free for open source projects, and $25 for closed source.  Trac is
very cool indeed.

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rick
http://techno-weenie.net