http://pggbee.com a pig-bee writing code from the bushes Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:54:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a script, that when run inside of your project, will convert your RSpec specs to Test::Unit tests. It still needs some serious work, right now it creates a bunch of obnoxious files in your spec directories, I will change that soon. I borrowed code from "spec_converter":http://opensource.thinkrelevance.com/wiki/spec_converter and inspiration from "Barbara ... http://pggbee.com/rspecabandoner-version-01-has-been-released/ The new "ruby":http://ruby-lang.org has some interesting new features, and I am hot to try them out. I've got Leopard installed, which comes with ruby 1.8.6, so I guess we could replace that. However, it's generally a good idea to leave that stuff be. So, I am going to installed ... http://pggbee.com/installing-ruby-187-on-leopard-mac-os-x-105/ Swapping out ERB for Erubis in a rails application is dead easy: Install the gem: gem i erubis Require it: # config/environment.rb require 'erubis/helpers/rails_helper' Preprocessing is awesome: # config/environment.rb require 'erubis/helpers/rails_helper' Erubis::Helpers::RailsHelper.preprocessing = true With that, you can use @[%= %]@ inside your views instead of @@. ... http://pggbee.com/using-erubis-in-rails/ Now that the "Rails":http://www.rubyonrails.org team has moved to using "Lighthouse":http://rails.lighthouseapp.com for bug, feature, and patch tracking, it’s a lot easier (and more fun) to track the patches coming in. Just point your rss reader to: http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/events.atom and watch the action! I know that ton’s of people followed development when they were ... http://pggbee.com/follow-rails-patches/ It’s a lot easier for me to hit *ctrl-f* than the right arrow key. Especially since I use my *caps-lock* as a *ctrl* key. These are Emacs navigation key combinations, and I can’t really work without them. TextMate has them built-in which is wonderful, "Gedit":http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/ on the ... http://pggbee.com/emacs-key-navigation-in-gedit/ I've put together a couple of "Gedit":http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/ plugins and snippets that will help your developing rails projects in "Gnome":http://gnome.org. Download "gedit-rails":http://github.com/mig/gedit-rails at github. This package includes a script that will register ERB templates and YAML files with "gtksourceview":http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView. That means that you will get some nice syntax highlighting! Enjoy! http://pggbee.com/gedit-rails-development-pack/ I like the default color scheme for syntax highlighting at "Pastie":http://pastie.caboo.se, so I decided to make a TextMate theme using the same colors. It’s not perfect, but it’s close! You can download it as part of my custom "TextMate theme repository":http://github.com/mig/tm_themes on github. If you don’t have git installed, ... http://pggbee.com/pastie-textmate-theme/