Thanks for everyone who came out to my talk at Barcamp Tampa Bay today, and many thanks to all the organizers, volunteers, and sponsors. Here are the slides to my talk – Diving into Compass and SASS.
Using Active Record in Sinatra and miss your rails db migration tasks? Create a /lib/tasks directory from your project root, and copy this file into it: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/2-3-stable/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake In your Rakefile, add this line (thanks to this post): Dir.glob(‘lib/tasks/*.rake’).each { |r| import r } And, to let the migrations dump your schema.rb file: RAILS_ROOT = File.dirname(FILE) […]
Quick tip: if you’re trying to clean up some failing cucumber features, and you get output like so: cucumber features/my_feature.feature:24 # Scenario: My user does stuff cucumber features/my_feature.feature:38 # Scenario: My user does more stuff And you’d rather it look like this: bundle exec cucumber features/my_feature.feature:24 -f pretty bundle exec cucumber features/my_feature.feature:38 -f pretty So […]
I set up an app on 2.3.8 with bundler, and when trying to run the rspec tests got …/config/Gemfile not found (Bundler::GemfileNotFound) which is odd. I’d grabbed the code for config/intializers/preinitializer.rb from gembundler.com; to solve the issue I changed line 15 from ENV["BUNDLE_GEMFILE"] = File.expand_path(“../../Gemfile”, _ FILE _) to ENV["BUNDLE_GEMFILE"] = File.expand_path(File.join(Rails.root,”Gemfile”), _ FILE _) […]
I’m just starting to look at bundler — way ahead of the curve as usual. I’m using zsh, and every time I ran a bundle command I’d get: correct ‘bundle’ to .. [nyae]? To turn off the autocorrect message, just add this to your .zshrc: alias bundle=’nocorrect bundle’
I’m sitting here with @gavinstark at major coffee/sandwich chain playing with rails 3.0 for the railsbridge bugmash weekend. Here’s what I had to do to get the omnominator app migrated to 3.0. Some (most) steps taken from Yehuda Katz’s post. Check out rails source: git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git Run rails update script I forked a copy […]
I recently set up a new MacBook Pro for development. Here’s what I did, mostly as notes to myself for next time: Basic rails environment I mostly followed Robby Russell’s guide, here. That got xcode, macports, ruby and rails, mongrel and postgres installed. MySql Most of my projects use MySql instead of postgres. I installed […]
Quick tip, mostly for myself: I’m moving a site to a new server. I’ve got several cron jobs set up to do things like delete caches, rotate logs, backup the db, etc. Most of the code for those tasks is written as rake tasks, so it’s nice, readable ruby code and included in the code […]