This is a sort of lazyweb request. Anybody know of a tool like Mozilla Tinderbox for Ruby on Rails applications? What I’m looking for is an application that will periodically check out a Ruby on Rails application from version control, run all of the tests, and publish the results of those tests and a [...]
Entries from June 2006
Tinderbox for Ruby on Rails applications
June 5th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Testing out MarsEdit
June 5th, 2006 · 6 Comments
I’m testing out MarsEdit for posting to my weblog. Lately I’ve had a few incidents where I was composing something and closed the browser window before realizing that I was getting rid of something I couldn’t get back. The worst incident involved 2,000 words or so that I composed for our wiki at work. [...]
The Revenge of the Sith was terrible
June 5th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith premiered on HBO this weekend, so I finally got around to watching it. How was this movie well reviewed when it came out? It was both too long and too short. Too long in that there were far too many scenes that were just [...]
I love YouTube
June 4th, 2006 · 1 Comment
It’s hard for me to imagine a site that has changed the Internet in such a short time as YouTube. With YouTube around, the idea of installing third party applications in order to watch videos seems absurd, and the idea of actually sending a video file as an email attachment is completely obsolete. In the [...]
Screenshot app for OS X
June 3rd, 2006 · 5 Comments
Any recommendations for OS X screen capture applications other than Snapz Pro? It’s a fine application but it’s not compatible with my MacBook Pro.
Ruby on Rails gets the details right
June 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Yesterday I was implementing a feature in a Ruby on Rails application, and it occurred to me to mention that aside from providing a strong basic framework for creating Web applications, Rails also generally nails the details. Our application has a basic paginated list view, and I needed to make the view sortable by the [...]