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Understanding the Rails command

I ran a few quirks during the course of working on MultiRails and testing against the Rails 2.0 prerelease.
The first thing was tracking down what Rails version is actually used when you just run the “rails” command. This is important when you have many versions of Rails installed via gems, some of […]

multi_rails has been released

MultiRails allows easy testing against multiple versions of Rails for
your Rails specific gem or plugin.
Use MultiRails to hook in Rails 2.0 testing in your continuous integration. Still working on Rails 2.0 support? Use MultiRails to see where your test suite falls down against the 2.0 preview releases of Rails.
sudo gem install multi_rails…view the […]

Yall gonna go update some code, up in here, up ‘n here!”

A stupid script to update all projects within a directory. This could be massively improved.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Simple script to svn up all directories within the current directory, or the
# specified directory.  Does not recurse, assumes we only need to go to the
# immediate directories.
# ex:> cd my_projects; upper    # svn up all [...]

I’m feeling open sourcey…

Got some open source updates and releases coming soon:

My logic captcha plugin for Rails, BrainBuster, has recently been globalized by one creative user. I'd like to incorporate something into the next release to make it easy for people to extend the plugin in ways like this, but I'd like to avoid adding a "lang" [...]