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...est startups" using Rails, I think it''d have been better had I asked "coolest software." Besides the obvious (37Signals, Typo, Yakima Herald, Odeo, Measure Map, etc.), I''m just curious about other developments where people are using it to make nifty stuff. -- Giles Bowkett www.gilesgoatboy.org

...39;s what I''m trying to do. Does anyone know what the best way to do it is? I have three controllers, each one has a hidden tag, and I want each one to salt its respective tag with the name of the action in effect, at the time that action runs, for every action in the controller. -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org

...h is this: @order_pages = Paginator.new(self, @orders.length, 10, (params[:page] ||= 1).to_i) It doesn''t work. @orders is sorted when I hand it to Paginator. Am I skipping a step? Does Paginator only work on run-of-the-mill SQL calls? I can''t seem to figure this out. -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org

...ritten code which travels backwards through time: http://www.vimeo.com/742590 This disturbs me immensely. If anyone can explain it, that would be cool. I think it''s an illusion brought about by how RSpec wraps the code it executes, and by the sheer weirdness of continuations. -- Giles Bowkett Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org Tumblelog: http://giles.tumblr.com Podcast: http://hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com

...leanest way to implement this? Add a -profiling command-line flag to spec itself? Is there a single point of entry and exit for running individual specs that I can put the code around? It''s currently manually hacked onto each example group individually and it seems a bit untidy. -- Giles Bowkett Podcast: http://hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org Tumblelog: http://giles.tumblr.com

...ere a simple way to implement this feature? my JavaScript''s a bit rusty but I think you can probably just put it in a function, and then reference the function from the form tag in the HTML. if there''s anybody out there with fluent JavaScript -- does that sound right? -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org

...ta soon. The server has 2GB of RAM and has to do a lot of work with RMagick, including generating and storing lots of images. My predecessors put all of the image storage on the filesystem, and I won''t be able to change that right away. Any & all help massively appreciated. -- Giles Bowkett Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org

...obably this approach is a good direction, and that I should change the specs by making them more specific. (For instance, there are places where I check that a Generator subclass can do stuff, even though Generator itself isn''t fully specced.) I''m not quite sure though. -- Giles Bowkett Podcast: http://hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org Tumblelog: http://giles.tumblr.com

...get increased efficiency. Does anyone have any good advice/URLs/books on how to do cost estimates on a project? I''ve really always kind of avoided the issue as one of those boring "business" details, but it''s looking as if I should really sort of figure it out. -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org

Is there a list for discussing Rails internals or is that kind of one of those jealously guarded secret things? Also, I seem to be being a bit of a prat today, but if you read this closely: http://www.rubyonrails.org/images/headlines/community.gif Bit of a grammatical error there. (Sorry!) Giles

OK, general question for the community -- what''s the coolest startup using Rails? I don''t think "37 Signals" is a fair answer. I''m curious as to what kind of other developments are happening. Are there a lot of startups using Rails in the first place? Or do most of you who are lucky enough to do Rails for a living (I''m coding Java, bleah) work in large

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Raleigh area Ruby users Meetup. It was very interesting and very informative. I did feel a bit out of place when we noticed that of the 11-12 people there, I was the only one with a PC laptop. The rest were shiny macs. Ah well, I need to replace this thing soon, and now that BootCamp is out, I really have no more excuses. This way I can test

Below I''ve pasted a ./script/story command I''ve been using for about a week. It has three modes of operation: 1. ./script/story with no arguments will run all *.story files in the story path 2. ./script/story with a path or glob will run the specified stories 3. If input is passed in via STDIN, it runs that text as a story. This opens up story running via a simple interface

...trol. I have an idea how the specs should look but I don''t have it clearly articulated. I need a way to translate that vague sense for other people without guiding them through the code line by line. Earlier today I caught a spec that took 50 seconds to run, which was just nuts. -- Giles Bowkett Podcast: http://hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org Tumblelog: http://giles.tumblr.com

Hi all, Is there any integration with testing tools such as RSpec or Test::Unit planned? I see that the cruise task is run correctly, but the tests show up underneath the build log. Ideally I''d like them to show up the same way that they do in ''java'' CruiseControl, in their own section of tests. Will.

Greetings, I am curious, I see quite a few references to using TextMate for rails development. I downloaded TextMate and used it for 30 days. I do not see what everyone is raving about. Snipplets are nice, but other editors do the same thing, some with much more power. Can anyone tell me what makes people draw to TextMate? Maybe I am missing the whole reason, I''d really like to

Here''s my crazy question of the day. Has anybody played around with using Rails to create Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets? Or is that just sick and wrong? Giles

Is there anyway to make Rails NOT cache? I''m getting caching in the browser and the server. I have to restart Lighttpd after every view change to see the results. Thanks, phill

Hi to everybody, I''m writing an article about Ruby on Rails and I need to gather some information about the project and the community of core developers. In particular I''d like to know something about the organization of the project (how are decisions taken, who decides what goes into the project, conflict resolution, contributions acceptance...) and something more technical

...es something like this exist already? I''ve been googling and found little but it seems something should and would. All I want to do is say "you can''t hit submit if you''ve selected only one of the three dropdowns. Either you select all three, or none." -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org