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Rails 2.0.2 is coming…

That was fast…
…and now its official.

[ANN] multi_rails 0.0.4 Released

MultiRails lets you test your Rails plugin or app against many versions of Rails in one sweep.
DESCRIPTION:
MultiRails allows easy testing against multiple versions of Rails for your Rails specific gem or plugin. It also has tentative support testing Rails applications against multiple versions of Rails.
Use MultiRails to hook in Rails 2.0 testing in your […]

Handling asset caching nicely in Rails 2.0

update: fix some incorrect paths that did not have the public in front. (thanks Jon)
From your rails root:
mkdir public/javascripts/cache
mkdir public/stylesheets/cache
svn add public/javascripts/cache/
svn add public/stylesheets/cache/
svn propset svn:ignore ‘*’ public/javascripts/cache/
svn propset svn:ignore ‘*’ public/stylesheets/cache/
svn ci -m “add cache directories for combined assets, but ignore their contents”
Then wherever you are doing the js and css includes:
< %= [...]

I can has laptops?

(not our dog - found by my wife while randomly surfing flickr)

Creating a Static Loopback Address to use in VMWare

The problem: you want to be able to always use the same address in VMWare Fusion for your local Mac web server(s), to test IE6 and IE7 with apps as you dev locally. You normally connect via DHCP, so you can’t depend on your IP address being constant. You can’t use localhost or […]

Fixing Textmate Test Issues - `blank_slate_method_added’: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)

If you are getting long, recursive stack traces like the following when trying to run a test/spec from within Textmate:

/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/builder-2.1.2/lib/blankslate.rb:84:in `blank_slate_method_added': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/builder-2.1.2/lib/blankslate.rb:84:in `blank_slate_method_added'
from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/builder.rb:86:in `method_added'
from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/builder.rb:111
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'...

The stack goes on for many more lines, and your tests always work normally outside of textmate. The issue is that textmate [...]

MultiRails 0.0.3 released

MultiRails lets you test your Rails plugin or app against many versions of Rails in one sweep.
rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/multi-rails/
rdocs: http://multi-rails.rubyforge.org/
svn stable: http://robsanheim.googlecode.com/svn/tags/stable/multi_rails (gem is released from here)
svn trunk: http://robsanheim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/multi_rails
mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/multi_rails
Description
MultiRails [...]

Minor Gotcha with ActiveRecord query methods

Stumbled upon a gotcha with the ActiveRecord query methods you get for free, along side the normal attribute accessor methods. Its a "gotcha" in that I "gotcha" read the docs and Rails source a bit more in depth before making assumptions about how Rails works, but I'd rather pretend the fault is with Rails [...]

Gmail freaks out - Lynx for the win

Gmail decided to freak out on me tonight. After logging it, it would just continuously refresh the page immediately after loading. I don't know if this means gmail is having issues, or my machine is just pissed off at me tonight, or what. It was consistent across browsers (mac ff, safari, webkit).
So [...]