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Finally, a new theme and dropping the www

Finally, some long overdue updates here.
The old theme here was way beyond tired - I’m now using Derek’s wonderfully clean theme. I think I broke the feed for a little bit there, but it should be back up and properly redirecting to feed burner.
I also got rid of the www, so robsanheim.com is officially […]

Did redgreen get borked?

I recently had to reinstall all my favorite gems and tools on a powerbook, and desired colored test goodness. So after bringing in redgreen and zentest gems, amongst others, I saw the following:

rob@fixx:~/src/relevance/pharminst/trunk$ rake|redgreen
-bash: redgreen: command not found
^Crake aborted!

rob@fixx:~/src/relevance/pharminst/trunk$ rake|rg
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/redgreen-1.2.2/bin/rg:6: can’t convert nil into String (TypeError)
from […]

Make Textmate’s “find in project” faster in Rails projects

Textmate’s “find in project” feature is great, but if you use it within any substantial Rails projects it can get very slow, especially as cruft builds up in the log folder or if you use vendor/rails. This is easily fixed, however — go into your textmate preferences, then “folder references”, and change “folder pattern” […]

Upgraded Wordpress…

I’ve finally upgraded this blog to the latest Wordpress. Apologies if my feed refreshes or you notice any sort of weirdness as I work out the kinks.

BrainBuster 0.7 released

BrainBuster is a logic captcha plugin for Ruby on Rails. The 0.7 release has been completely overhauled to have a much less obtrusive approach using only filters, instead of requiring code changes to actions. It also features enhanced security, tests (!), and overall goodness.
If you are upgrading, PLEASE see the readme - the […]