Kete

Several people from the Kete project will be presenting and/or attending the MyLanguage.Net conference in Sydney, August 9-11th, 2010.Related: 2 Topics

Several people from the Kete project will be presenting and/or attending the MyLanguage.Net conference in Sydney, August 9-11th, 2010.Related: 2 Topics

I’ve just posted a technical overview of how Kakama functions. You can view it at Kakama.org

I’ve been working with Rails and Ruby since 2006 and I’m surprised I hadn’t put this together for myself: $ cd test # from your rails app root $ ruby unit/a_model_test.rb As compared to: $ ruby -I"lib:test" ... [More] "/usr/local/Cellar/ruby-enterprise-edition/1.8.7-20090928/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/unit/a_model_test.rb" Definitely a hand to forehead moment when I read that! Found it in a comment here: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16213/tickets/8 *Assumes your ruby command is set [...] [Less]

When you’re starting off, it’s fairly easy to commit to the master branch. But once your application is released, you probably want to keep things stable on the master branch. So use feature branches. You do all your work in a feature branch, then pull it into the master branch. There are numerous topics on the [...]

I’ve moved from MacPorts to Homebrew which includes a recipe for installing MongoDB. After installing Homebrew, just run this as your normal user: brew install mongodb If you prefer to store your MongoDB data all under your home directory, you might ... [More] find Mislav’s gist suits your needs instead: http://gist.github.com/265272 If you prefer installing from source, check out this post: http://shiftcommathree.com/articles/how-to-install-mongodb-on-os-x Enjoy. [Less]

Three recent and little known features of New Relic RPM which help increase usefulness.

Quick quote to migrating your gem list from Github to Gemcutter, the newest (and soon, only) gem hoster on the scene.

Stumbled upon this. If you’re going to make a URI (domain or sub domain) with an underscore, think twice. IE7 and IE8 do not support these URI’s when dealing with cookies. For more details, see this blog post, detailing the symptoms. http://blog.patrick-morgan.net/2008/09/problems-with-ie7-sessions-not-saved-in.html

A few sites that we have been working on wanted an extra step with the signup process on their website that requires an additional level of vetting by the site administrator when a new user submits the online form. To achieve this we made some minor changes to the core code. The following change [...]