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What''s the best way to test the flash when you use flash#now ? For example, if I set the flash in my controller: flash.now[:notice] = ''This will only show up on this action.'' How do I test it? Normally I would do: assert_equal ''This will only show up on this action.'', flash[:notice] But this doesn''t seem to work with flash.now. Any

I am pleased to announce that Radiant CMS is now publically available from the Subversion repository at: http://radiantcms.org/ What is Radiant? ---------------- Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general purpose content management system (not a blogging engine). Radiant features:

The upgrade to Rails 1.1 hurt my ability to run tests because it generated the following MySQL error: Mysql::Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''key ON config (key)'' at line 1: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX key ON config (key) I have a table called `config` with a column

So I''m interested in creating an application specific generator. The script/generate command tells me that all I have to do is put a generator in my rails_root/generators: > 2. Unzip to directory /Users/{username}/.rails/generators/login > to use the generator with all your Rails apps > or to {app_root}/generators/login > to use with this app only. So I

I am pleased to announce the immediate release of Radius 0.5.0. Radius is a small, but powerful tag-based template language for Ruby inspired by the template languages used in MovableType <www.movabletype.org> and TextPattern <www.textpattern.com>. It uses tags similar to XML, but can be used to generate any form of plain text (HTML, e-mail, etc...). This release is much more feature

Thanks to discussions on this list, suggestions from many of you and a patch from Pat Maddox, we now have Plain Text User Stories in Story Runner. Read more: http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/articles/2007/10/21/story-runner-in-plain-english Cheers, David

This is sort of a pre-announcement for a Rails plugin my friend Adam Williams and I are working on. We''re in the process of extracting it from a project we are working on so that it can be generally useful to the Rails community. We are calling it "Scenarios". It is a drop in replacement for Rails fixtures: http://faithfulcode.rubyforge.org/svn/plugins/trunk/scenarios/README

I''m pleased to announce a new plugin for Rails: Userstamp. You can read my blog post at http://www.delynnberry.com/articles/2006/01/20/userstamp-plugin and/or read all about it at the perminant page http://www.delynnberry.com/pages/userstamp. Any comments or suggestions for improvement are much appreciated. -- DeLynn Berry delynn@gmail.com http://www.delynnberry.com A dump of the Readme

I''ve got two pretty simple model objects Page and PagePart. Page has_many PageParts and PageParts belong_to Pages. When updating PageParts for a specific Page I''d like to be able to do: page.parts[x].content = ''changed'' page.save and expect that should the validation pass the changed page part would be saved as well, but this doesn''t seem to

I present: http://wiseheartdesign.com/articles/2006/01/16/testing-rails-validations/ What are your testing secrets for Rails? -- John Long http://wiseheartdesign.com/

Has anyone written a centering function with Prototype which centers an element on a page (both vertically and horizontally) regardless of the amount that the page has been scrolled? -- John Long http://wisheartdesign.com

We just launched the new Ruby Site: http://ruby-lang.org A full write up here: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/09/12/site-launch-at-last/ Digg it: http://digg.com/programming/Redesigned_Ruby_Site_Launched Kudos to everyone involved! -- John Long http://wiseheartdesign.com http://radiantcms.org

Last night I quietly rolled out the first official release of Radiant: 0.5 - Grindstone. This release was a stability release mostly targeted toward making it easy for people to download and get started with Radiant. Radiant now ships with a simple setup_database script which makes it easy to get up and running with one of three default templates. We also made it easy for people to install

Looks like it''s time for another release of Radiant: http://radiantcms.org/download/ This is primarily a security update. A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Rails 1.1.4 and previous versions. Rails 1.1.6 seems to fix the problem. This version of Radiant is identical to 0.5.1 apart from the Rails upgrade. It is highly recommended that you upgrade. WHAT IS

I failed to package up the Zip and Tar correctly for Radiant 0.5.2. They each included Rails 1.1.5 instead of 1.1.6. I?ve repackaged the files and they should be ready for download as soon as they propagate to the appropriate servers: * http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12493/radiant-0.5.2-2.tgz * http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12494/radiant-0.5.2-2.zip Since Rails 1.1.5 has a

I am pleased to announce the release of Radiant 0.5.1 Gemdust: http://radiantcms.org/download/ This is primarily a security update. A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Rails 1.1.5. It is therefore highly recommended that you upgrade immediately. Apart from the Rails 1.1.5 upgrade, this release includes a number of small enhancements. From the change log: WHAT IS