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Archive for April, 2008
Living on the edge (of Rails) #18
In: Edge Rails| Open Source| Ruby| Ruby on Rails
27 Apr 2008This week’s report covers changes from 21 Apr 2008 to 27 Apr 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).
Not much interesting to report this week – there were mostly a bunch of bugfixes and Ruby 1.8.7-compatibility commits.
Introduce ActiveResource::Base.timeout and rescuing from Timeout::Error in ActiveResource::Connection
These are 2 changes that I’d talked about earlier [...]
New in Rails: ActiveResource timeouts and why it matters
In: Ruby| Ruby on Rails| Web development
22 Apr 2008If you’ve ever used ActiveResource or for that matter, coded anything that involves interacting with a remote API, you’ve probably had the misfortune of having that API go down or become unresponsive. The experienced old geezers would already have forseen the problem and set a timeout on those API calls. For the rest of us, [...]
Living on the edge (of Rails) #17
In: Edge Rails| Open Source| Ruby| Ruby on Rails
20 Apr 2008Not much going on this week on edge Rails. It does seem however that we do have a new Rails core member, Joshua Peek. Also, the new Rails’ bug tracker hosted on Lighthouse is ready for use, so be sure to submit your patches and bug reports there.
This week’s report covers changes from 14 Apr [...]
Command history meme
In: Personal
18 Apr 2008See this.
history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
4605 cd
3576 svn
2141 ls
1701 ruby
1308 cap2
1066 ss
978 rake
867 sshb
688 rm
635 mate
cap2 is just my alias for Capistrano 2 (I use both 1.x and 2.x, since I’m lazy to upgrade some old Rails applications, ss is my alias for script/server. sshb [...]
Living on the edge (of Rails) #16 – Github edition
In: Edge Rails| Open Source| Ruby| Ruby on Rails
13 Apr 2008A slight change this week since Rails has moved to Git – all changesets are now referenced to Github.
This week’s report covers changes from 7 Apr 2008 to 13 Apr 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).
A helpers proxy method for accessing helper methods from outside of views
A helpers method has been [...]
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