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I appear to have written 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:

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

Hi all, where I work we''ve cooked up a kind of ghetto profiler for our specs. It basically just does this: time = Time.now # run the spec puts "woah! dude. long spec." if time > 1.second I''m simplifying here. I think the threshold is actually 0.1 seconds, and we use more precise language, and highlight the spec in red via terminal colors, etc. But the way it works

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.

Hi all - does anyone know of a good blog post or wiki or something with a good guide to mocking? I''ve got some degree of responsibility for people who are creating mocks. I''m supposed to actually be telling them the best way to do it. In some cases we have code with like a bazillion mock(:x) statements and it''s kind of out of control. I have an idea how the specs should

Hi - couldn''t find the dev list because it appears http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com/ is throwing 503 errors. But, to get CCrb running with the new ActiveSupport, I had to do this: http://s3.amazonaws.com/giles/ccrb_duration_patch.jpg (Sorry to submit my patch in JPEG format but you know what they say, anything for a weird life.) The changes are on lines 18 and 27:

Ezra, I love merb, especially because it''s keeping the things that Rails does well and improves on things that Rails hasn''t done so well. One of my biggest pain points with Rails has become multi-app integration. A lot of web sites consist of multiple apps (e.g. a core site, a forum, a blog/cms, etc.). Doing this sort of thing is very ugly and inefficient with the current

Hi - I''ve got a pretty popular Rails app on a Mongrel cluster with Apache and mod_proxy_balancer. How do I decide how many Mongrel servers to put in the cluster? I don''t have stats for the number of requests hitting the server yet, but I should have that data soon. The server has 2GB of RAM and has to do a lot of work with RMagick, including generating and storing lots of

I''m speccing some code which monkey-patches initialize on ActiveResource::Base. The monkey-patch lives in a module. My spec looks like this: describe MyModule, "doing stuff" do it "adds methods to ARes subclasses" do class Thing < ARes::Base ; end (lambda {Thing.new.the_new_method}).should_not raise_error(NoMethodError) end end I did this thing

Asked a little while back about "coolest 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

Hi -- well, that''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

I have a little web app where we need to paginate collections of items. I''m trying to sort the collection and then pass it, sorted, to a Paginator, and still be able to paginate through the collection, across several pages, with the new sort order. The only thing I''m doing differently from the regular scaffolding approach is this: @order_pages = Paginator.new(self,

form_remote_tag has a really useful little thingamob called :condition. you give it a string which is then interpolated into the form tag in such a way that the form is only submitted if :condition evaluates in javascript to true. so the logical thing to do is give it a JavaScript function <%= form_remote_tag ( :condition => ''your_function_here()'',

OK, so for most of my career, I''ve done everything on an hourly rate. Recently somebody kind of pointed out that if you bill by the milestone you can work on multiple projects simultaneously without any ethical problems, so you 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

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

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

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

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

I vote for spec''ing. Anybody else?

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