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Panasonic Youth » SoftwareQuick: Find the Bug or Gotcha with named_scope Think fast! Where's the bug?
named_scope :active, :conditions => ["activated_at <= ?",
DateTime.now.utc.to_s(:db)]
Looks fine, right? Maybe you've hit this already, and you see it immediately.
The symptoms are that th Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 02:42 AM Notes on testing Bj (Background Job) Some thoughts and random notes on testing Bj within a Rails integration test (or
spec).
You have to turn transactions off for the scope of the test, or suffer very
confusing issues, since Bj itself wraps the job submittal within a transaction.
The Posted: Jul. 10, 2008 03:24 AM CapGun and LogBuddy updated to 0.0.5 Some long overdue releases of cap_gun and log_buddy - both have been updated to
version 0.0.5. Both are now available as gems on github.com/relevance as well
as from rubyforge.
CapGun gives you super simple deployment notifications from Capistrano. Posted: Jul. 6, 2008 01:35 AM Git 1.5.6 released Git 1.5.6 has been released, and there are a lot of usability fixes and tweaks
which should make the upgrade worth your while. Looking at the detailed list of
changes since 1.5.5, it looks like submodules have been getting quite a bit of
love from m Posted: Jun. 19, 2008 12:51 AM Git lessons learned Lessons learned from day to day use with various ruby and rails projects.
* Submodules completely suck when things get complex - I'm moving away from no
submodules, and using direct exports for now until I have time to research braid
or piston 2.0. Posted: Jun. 6, 2008 10:17 AM Refactotum Rails Conf 2008 I'm in Portland for Rails Conf with over 80% of the Relevance crew. We were
testing out our "plane number" yesterday, but thank goodness American didn't let
us down.
We'll be speaking today at about how to contribute to open source at Refactotum
fro Posted: May. 29, 2008 11:39 AM Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test? A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and
effective. I now am going to digress a bit, take a step back and view the big
picture to establish context.
Before addressing test performance and what makes up a good test, we Posted: Apr. 18, 2008 10:29 AM CapGun Released! Super simple Capistrano deployment notifications Tell everyone about your releases! Send email notification after Capistrano
deployments! Rule the world!
Drop your ActionMailer configuration information into your deploy.rb file,
configure recipients for the deployment notifications, and setup the Posted: Apr. 17, 2008 09:57 PM history meme onwards
rsanheim@ares:~$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] "
" i}}' | sort -rn | head
71 gst
67 l
38 ****
38 c
28 git
22 ss
21 gca
13 gsd
13 :
12 rake
I like keeping it short. The 3rd one thats bleeped out is a shortcut Posted: Apr. 16, 2008 01:15 AM If you think Huddle is ripping off Campfire ...then you haven't seen mIRC, an irc client app that has been around for years:
See anything familiar in the screen shot above?
Tabs on the top, list of participants in the right hand pane, and chat in the
main window. Change the font to Lucida Gr Posted: Apr. 8, 2008 09:25 PM 
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