Posted by Stephen Waits
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:34:54 GMT
I signed up with Site5 as a web host not too long ago. I didn’t think Planet Argon’s sloppy support could be topped; however, I’m starting to think this might be sloppy support at a whole new level.
I’ll give it a few more days and let you know if I get some satisfaction. At this point though, I’m not counting on it. Overall, I have a growing sensation that I made an awful choice here. I’d used Modwest in the past, but they aren’t competitive these days.
TextDrive’s looking better - but I suspect they might be suffering some growing pains of their own. Anyone have any input on an affordable, yet solid RoR host???
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:35:57 GMT
Check out rubymanual.org. It’s fully searchable, nicely indexed, and allows for PHP.net style comments in the docs.
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:52:10 GMT
I’m so excited. Today’s my birthday, and I woke up to see my first Ruby Quiz get published!
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:28:53 GMT
Pragmatic Dave as created a plugin that will automagically add the appropriate table schema at the top of each of your model files!
Anyone who has worked with Rails and a database, even a tiny bit, should instantly recognize the usefulness of this simple little thing!
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:54:34 GMT
The Selenium IDE is a cool Firefox Plugin. It monitors your actions and writes out a Selenium script for you as you go.
Combine this with the Rails Selenium Plugin and your testing just got way easier.
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:28:26 GMT
Now it’s very easy to use Selenium in Rails, thanks to the new selenium plugin by Jonas Bengtsson.
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:16:58 GMT
Ok, well, I’ve been sitting on this for awhile, so it’s kind of old news. But _why, the lucky stiff and a true mad genius, recently released Camping, a “microframework” conceptually similar to Rails.
To use it, without a database, you’ll find some good examples on the wiki. For use with a database you just need some familiarity with ActiveRecord, which is simple enough.
It looks like a great way to crank out a quick prototype, or even more. As usual, when _why speaks, people pay attention. Amazing guy…
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:57:31 GMT
I think about all I’m going to be able to actually accomplish on this quiz is to generate a few test cases via brute force or stochastic search. That said, here they are – please let me know if you find shorter solutions so that I may update my own cases.
Update: Christer Nilsson pointed out a better solution for 300 -> 1. I’ve corrected it in my test suite.
Update: Peter Burns has updated my test code, fixing several cases, and making it a bit more data-centric. Check it out here. As a side note, my original code was output by a C++ program. Blush.
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:36:31 GMT
Nitro is another Ruby based Web Framework, like Rails. Nitro uses Og for its ORM, which has some features that ActiveRecord doesn’t. Check out the two new Nitro screencasts. More are supposed to be on the way, specifically demonstrating some of the advanced features of Og.
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:10:11 GMT
This week’s Ruby Quiz is about coding a robot to do battle with other robots. Once the entries are collected, they’ll be run in a round robin tournament. There’s even a prize up for grabs this week! Looks like a ton of fun, but who has the time?
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Posted by Stephen Waits
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:51:00 GMT
Those of you that know me well enough know that I’ve taken on a serious fanaticism with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Well, straight from the mouth of DHH himself, Rails 1.0 is finally here, and it’s turned out to be a sweet package!
If you haven’t played with Rails yet, or even Ruby, you owe it to yourself to check it out today. It’s unbelievably fun stuff.
Via Loud Thinking.
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