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Campers -- In a few weeks there will be a bunch of people in Portland, OR, for a conference. A long time ago some campers mentioned that might be a good time for us to get together and hold a mini CampingConf for a few hours. Is anyone interested? Does anyone want to organize it? I''m thinking Wednesday night, May 16. We could possibly get a spot at FreeGeek (not likely since they are

Mosquito, the TDD framework for Camping has been updated (0.1.3). We''ve tried to keep it backwards compatible, so your apps should continue to work. But feel free to submit a bug report at RubyForge if you have any problems. Changes: http://rubyforge.org/frs/shownotes.php?group_id=351&release_id=14845 Download: http://rubyforge.org/projects/mosquito/ Docs:

I''m putting together an episode of the Rails podcast that will be dedicated to Camping. I already have the first interview recorded. I''d like to get 3 or 4 more short interviews (short...maybe 4.096 minutes each). If you''d like instant fame, send me an email and tell me what camping project you would like to talk about, what your skype username is, and when is a good

Is anyone developing with HAML templates in Merb? I had to do a few hacks but got it generally working (Merb trunk). I did have to do odd things like print @_layout_content straight out instead of calling catch_content(:layout). And, templates seem to be cached even if I set :cache_templates to false in merb.yml. I hope to be at the MerbHack night at RailsConf and would love to hack on this part

For your entertainment, a simple Camping app to watch your Backpack account and show a list of recently updated pages. I hope to implement an RSS feed soon. Uses Hpricot to parse the XML from Backpack. http://svn.topfunky.com/public/camping/thief/ Geoffrey Grosenbach ........................ Screencast | http://peepcode.com

I can''t get fixtures to load correctly in a Mosquito test. The first fixture loads in the unit test, but the rest don''t load at all. File structure: tracker/ tracker.rb test/ test_tracker.rb fixtures/ tracker_measurements.yml tracker_projects.yml Relevant test code: require ''rubygems''

Fellows of the cloth -- I''m writing code that subclasses RedCloth and emits styled text that is not HTML. For example, I''m going to be emitting RTF and other formats from Textile or Markdown. I''ve got it working quite well with plainclothed RedCloth, but I can''t seem to override any of the methods in SuperRedCloth. Here''s a sample:

The second release of TentSteak is out and available as a gem on rubyforge ("gem install tent_steak"). This version introduces a handful of new form helpers, a couple method renames, editable HTML tables, and some application bootstrappers for kickstarting Camping and initializing ActiveRecord. It''s still in active development, and I''d very much appreciate

Hi, I want to write a plugin that uses JavaScript and I am wondering how to put the static content, i.e. the JavaScript, in place? I read the documentation I found ( http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Plugins and links) and looked at the listed plugins. One thing I found was that subversion seems to be a prerequisite for providing or even installing plugins. Is that right? The other thing

Can someone explain the new Markaby syntax to me? I''m using Markaby as a Rails plugin, fetched from the trunk. I''m losing my instance variables somehow (@thing is always nil): class ThingsController < ApplicationController def index @thing = "Bacon of the chunky variety" end end # app/views/index.mab h1 { "You should see a thing here:" } p {

Hi all, I love the elegance of Markaby for HTML generation. I''d like to do something similar for SVG, e.g.: svg11 do title "Slide Title" rect({:x=>2,:y=>2,:width=>508,:height=>318,:fill=>"aqua"}) g({:style=>"fill:blue; stroke:black", :transform=>"translate(17,-38)"}) do circle({:cx=>70, :cy=>100,

are you guys aware of this?? :) Begin forwarded message: > From: topfunky <topfunkycorporation at gmail.com> > Date: June 4, 2007 8:35:24 PM EDT > To: PeepCode <peepcode at googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: testing - test/spec and rspec > Reply-To: peepcode at googlegroups.com > > > On 5/28/07, Neil <neilrahilly at gmail.com> wrote: >> Just

<gloat>Well, that''s me booked in for RailsConf in september :0)</gloat> Who else is going? Steve

why has mentioned this before, but I wrote a small test framework for Camping and it is now available as a gem. sudo gem install mosquito If you''d like to write unit or functional test for your Camping app, check it out: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/wiki/MosquitoForBugFreeCamping http://rubyforge.org/projects/mosquito Several people have already submitted patches and

I attended a lecture in Sydney, Australia earlier this week that featured a rulin'' presenter app written in Camping. It recreates Eric Myer''s S5 presenter app, but with a better implementation in Ruby. I hope I''m not jumping the gun, but the author is Myles Byrne and he posted a link to the svn here (don''t bug him with feature requests for a few

EASTMEDIA GROUP TO OFFER RUBY ON RAILS TRAINING COURSES IN NEW YORK CITY AND LONDON EastMedia Group, New York City?s premier Rails shop, is now offering two separate training courses on Ruby and Ruby and Rails. On April 29, EastMedia will offer a one-day training course in New York, to be taught by Francis Hwang and Matt Pelletier. On May 5 through 7, Smartlab/Volks Lab and EastMedia

Hey Everyone, Topfunky (Geoffry) has created a great PeepCode screencast on using httperf to performance measure your web applications: http://nubyonrails.topfunky.com/articles/2007/03/05/peepcode-page-caching-and-httperf http://peepcode.com/products/benchmarking-with-httperf Topfunky put a ton of work into this and really got it right. The attention to detail is very good and he researched

Hi, Thanks Zed - this is very interesting. One item in particular caught my eye: Does anyone on this list have any comments or validation that Rails 1.2.1 is 2-4 times as slow as Rails 1.1.6? Topfunky provided a link that purports what looks like really horrible performance and memory characteristics for Rails 1.2.1, even v. 1.1.6:

Reminder for all Rails/Ruby Londoners that there is a meet up tonight with guest Chad Fowler. Hope to see some of you there. T -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi everyone -- In the excitement of the Chicago RailsConf and other recent events, don''t forget the excitement of RailsConf Europe! You''ve heard of it, but it seems kind of shadowy compared to the "big" events? Here''s the news: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It IS a big event!