October 2014

Oct

Announcing Nondestructive Migrations version 1.0

Now with full test coverage using MiniTest. Rubygems link: Appraisal to run my tests suite against several different versions of Rails (3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2). Getting this set up with a little bit of work, but well worth it. You can configure Travis CI to...

Programming

Jason

Oct

Little Trick To Get all the Methods You Can Call on a Ruby Object

This is a useful little trick to get all the methods that you can call on any Ruby object. This is extremely helpful when poking around someone else's code (like Gem code) that is poorly documented. foo.methods This will return a long list of methods that...

Programming

Jason

Oct

The pull request where CoffeeScript become the default in Rails

If you happen to be bored today and want to read something funny, ...

Programming

Jason

Oct

How to Install an Older Version of Rails

Learned something on the Rails-talk list today that blew me away. You can install an older version of rails using this syntax: rails _4.0.8_ new appname (Where "4.0.8" is the version you want and "appname" is the name of your new rails app.) Yes, you actually type those underscores...

Programming

Jason

Oct

Facebook Chrome Extension to do Mass Inviting to Facebook Events

Programming

Jason

Oct

Telling Safari NOT to re-open all the windows from my last session

Every restart your Mac and have it boot up only to open all the last Safari windows you had just opened? This feature - introduced a few operating systems ago - is something I personally don't like at all. Perhaps I'm a "power user" but...

Programming

Jason

Oct