Rails - Jul 2006 - Is Truer Coding Nirvana Possible?

I''ve been web developing for a long time, and last week it felt like
the
final piece of the puzzle finally fell into place for me with Markaby 
(no more angle brackets, slashes, closing tags, quotes, etc. Yay!) to 
reach a state where web development is enjoyable and easy and powerful. 
I''ve gone from:

ASP (NOT .Net), PHP, Perl
MySQL
CVS
Dreamweaver, Frontpage, and numerous other IDEs
Apache, IIS
Windows

to:

Lighty
Mongrel
SVN
Rails
Ruby
TextMate
PostgreSQL
Markaby
Fedora Core (server)
Mac OS X (desktop)

Does it get any better? Any other technologies which make life even 
easier? I haven''t used Capistrano yet since I only have a single server
(true, I could still use it, but it seems to really make life easier 
with multiple servers). Anything else?

Joe

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On Jul 25, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Joe wrote:
> Does it get any better? Any other technologies which make life even
> easier? I haven''t used Capistrano yet since I only have a single  
> server
> (true, I could still use it, but it seems to really make life easier
> with multiple servers). Anything else?
Don''t taunt Capistrano. :-)

Seriously, it''s a deployment tool. Multiple server functionality is a
bonus, not the core reason to use it.

-- 
-- Tom Mornini

Just an update on my path to nirvana. ;)

I gave in and installed Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Mongrel, and various 
other gems on my Powerbook and abandoned directly editing files on the 
server. I followed the directions at 
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/05/29/install-ruby-rails-and-postgresql-on-osx
and it went as advertised, though it took hours to compile everything 
for some reason. :(

Then I got myself up and running with Capistrano -- it''s really a
pretty
cool program. Had some problems getting it to get Mongrel to obey, but 
overcame that. rake deploy is such a powerful command...

Then I finally committed to TDD. Feels great knowing I haven''t broken 
anything after editing. I''ve now installed zentest and am using 
autotest. I hear unitdiff is good.

I''m also finally getting around to really switching from tables to CSS 
for layout stuff, and I''m liking it.

I''ve never loved coding more. If anybody has any additional tips,
please
feel free! I haven''t gotten around to writing integration tests yet,
and
I see there might be something called "dialog-driven development"
(don''t
know if they''re the same thing). I''ll be up on a mountain top,
in a
lotus position, coding...

Joe

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Daniel Higginbotham wrote:
> This is not strictly related to coding, but I''ve found that
drinking
> lots of
> water really helps keep my energy up when setting in front of the 
> computer
> 4-10 hours at a time :)
Nah, results in too many bathroom trips. ;P

Also, I forgot to mention RJS, which is easy.

Joe

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