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Comment on 'Another Passenger on the mod_rails' by Luke Hartman

2008-04-30T03:42:52Z

I appreciate the post and you sharing your experiences. I’m looking at diving more into Rails but the tweaking you talked about in the earlier attempts turned me off. Hopefully Passenger will continue to make deployment easy.

Comment on 'Another Passenger on the mod_rails' by Sebastian

2008-04-26T16:33:57Z

Good post! Thanks :)

Comment on 'Heroku Hijinks' by Navjeet

2008-02-11T18:08:08Z

That is indeed very smart usage of Heroku services. I will need to try it out for some of the same objectives you used it for. Thanks for providing your experience with Heroku, it is very helpful.

Comment on 'Learning RSpec' by Jared Haworth

2008-01-03T00:53:39Z

Bryanl,

Well, you’ve hit on the reason why I’m making an effort to learn it… it’s a good idea to stay aware of new trends, especially in a fast moving community like the Rails community.

Comment on 'Learning RSpec' by bryanl

2007-12-30T23:46:47Z

You would be surprised how many devs out there know rspec. And if they don’t.. they should :)

Comment on 'Advanced YAML Fixtures Gotchas' by Matt

2007-12-11T19:25:07Z

A quick glance at the source should answer your questions:


     # File vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb, line 531
531:   def self.identify(label)
532:     label.to_s.hash.abs
533:   end

So it should work pretty much anywhere, and any fixture with the same label will have the same ID.

Comment on 'Advanced YAML Fixtures Gotchas' by Jared

2007-12-11T17:31:39Z

I think part of the issue with using TestRig is the macro-style class methods for defining valid attributes; I can’t seem to use something simple like :user_id => users(:jared).id (such code gives a Top Level Constant error).

I guess I have two questions for Fixtures.identify that I’ll need to research: How does it handle label collisions (if I have a worker whose label is joe as well as a user whose label is joe), and if it will perform the identification when called as part of a class method in a Unit or Functional test.

Comment on 'Advanced YAML Fixtures Gotchas' by Matt

2007-12-11T17:15:06Z

I think that Fixtures.identify will do what you want – given a label, it returns the ID used.

Comment on 'De-ASCII Your Rails Logs' by Jared Haworth

2007-11-14T15:41:54Z

Thanks Ryan, that’s a great tip which I should have included.

I’ve actually played around with it both ways, but it’s handy for me to be able to watch tail -f in full color.

I just wish Apple’s Console.app would parse those ASCII colors properly.

Comment on 'De-ASCII Your Rails Logs' by Ryan Bates

2007-11-14T00:43:03Z

You can also disable the coloring entirely by setting this in your environment config:


config.active_record.colorize_logging = false

Comment on 'When Things Get Saved...' by vinbarnes

2007-10-11T21:48:41Z

Think about using a Presenter.

Comment on 'Outsmarted by Edge Rails' by Barry Hess

2007-08-31T16:50:11Z

The comment above was supposed to have paragraphs. :)

Comment on 'Outsmarted by Edge Rails' by Barry Hess

2007-08-31T16:49:25Z

This is precisely why I have avoided edge Rails for so long. I'm now on a project where we are on the edge. I really enjoy the new features, but I'm constantly wondering what I'm doing a little smellier than I have to. I wanted to avoid being inundated with the Trac feed, because honestly a large majority of it won't be applicable for me in the near future. So I'll either forget it anyway, or stress about finding a manner to try to remember it. And when I know something is available, but can't quite remember how to do it/use it. Most. Frustrating. Thing. Ever.