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!
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.
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.
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…
Posted by Stephen Waits Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:09:22 GMT
Wow! These AJAX maps of the World Of Warcarft are incredibly impressive. Nicely done.
Via reddit.
Posted by Stephen Waits Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:25:59 GMT
Discovered a few new web development tools:
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.
Posted by Stephen Waits Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:46:00 GMT
Wow, this thing is freaking sweet. With this script I should be able to cobble a script together to import my old bloxsom entries automagically! Additionally, I should be able to use it in my MoBlog scripts, if only Sprint would stop changing the format on me. To make it work with Typo, create your config like this:
[global]
default=myblog
[site-myblog]
url=http://myblog.com/backend/xmlrpc
username=USERNAME_HERE
password=PASSWORD_HERE
encoding=UTF-8
[blog-myblog]
site=myblog
blogid=1
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.