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Quick: Find the Bug or Gotcha with named _scope
Think fast! Where's the bug? named_scop e :active, :condition s => & #91;"activ ated_at <= ?"
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Quick: 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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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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
If you think Huddle is ripping off Campfire
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Yahoo! News Desk wrote: Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo got stupid advice from their investment bank advisors and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts in how to sell a company in a multi billio...
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