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• 08.18.09
  Announcing Roart: A Ruby RT Client Open Source, ruby | (0)

  We have several customers using our installation of Best Practical's Request Tracker (RT) system for keeping track of issues and making sure projects get done. We also have a few custom applications that we need to get information into and out of RT. Since most of our custom apps are written in Ruby, we started working on a library to make doing this as easy as possible. It may look a lot like ActiveRecord, and this is no accident. Since ActiveRecord is so easy and many people are already familiar with it, we based a large part of the API ...
• 07.17.09
  Autotest not working ruby, testing | (2)

  Autotest broke on me, probably from months of neglect (I've been running tests directly from Textmate), and I had a tough time figuring it out. Whenever I tried to run autotest, I'd get: [sourcecode language=sh] /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.1.3/lib/unit_diff.rb:70:in `gets': No such file or directory - -u (Errno::ENOENT) from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.1.3/lib/unit_diff.rb:70:in `parse_input' from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.1.3/lib/unit_diff.rb:182:in `unit_diff' from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.1.3/lib/unit_diff.rb:56:in `unit_diff' from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.1.3/bin/unit_diff:37 from /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/unit_diff:19:in `load' from /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/unit_diff:19 [/sourcecode] It turns out that the autotest file in rubygems/bin/autotest wasn't using the -s flag in the shebang line and that was causing the -u in the unit_diff program to be interpreted as a filename. To fix, i simply added -s to the end of the shebang line so ...
• 05.05.09
  Ruby Enterprise Edition on FreeBSD ruby | (0)

  Tonight I was installing Ruby Enterprise Edition on FreeBSD old.stupid and I ran into a problem. I was including ActiveSupport to get the Hash.from_xml() function (really good if you need just a dirty hash from some xml you got) and every time I would require 'active_support' i would get ...custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- iconv (LoadError) If you ever have to install Ruby Enterprise Edition on FreeBSD, you may run into the same problem. What I had to do was. [sourcecode language=sh] cd ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090421/source/ext/iconv /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby extconf.rb --prefix=/opt/ruby-enterprise --with-iconv-dir=/usr/local/ cp iconv.so /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-freebsdx.x/ [/sourcecode] That should get you running without having to reinstall Ruby Enterprise Edition. Why ...
• 05.03.09
  Specing Mechanize ResponseCodeError ruby, testing | (0)

  Working on a project this weekend, I found that i needed to tell if a page was not found (404 Error) and then do something based off that. I was writing specs and trying to figure out how to stub a Mechanize object to return a 404.  It turns out that anything except a 200 (OK), 301 (Moved Permanently) and 302 (Found, Redirect) will raise an exception. Specifically a WWW::Mechanize::ResponseCodeError. RSpec conveniently gives us a way to say that a method will raise an exception when it is called. and_raise(ExceptionClass). Trying this out myself, I kept getting back wrong number of arguments ...
• 11.26.08
  Rails 2.2 and RubyGems Open Source, Ruby on Rails, ruby | (0)

  Rails 2.2 was released earlier today, so you may be tempted (as indeed I was) to install it right away and play with the new features (such as Array#forty_two ) Well, there are a few things you need to be aware of before you start the update process. One is you must have rubygems 1.3.1 installed to use rails. The default way to do this is with [sourcecode language="sh"]sudo gem update --system[/sourcecode] However, there is a problem with updating rubygems this way when you don't have rubygems-update installed. You can get around this by using [sourcecode language="sh"]sudo gem install rubygems-update sudo ...
• 08.26.08
  Ruby Hoedown Open Source, ruby | (0)

  For real. Sorta. I gave a lightning talk about God+Merb at this year's Ruby Hoedown in Huntsville, Alabama. It's not much, but here is my 5 min. rundown of what I've done to god, and how I use it. It's available here from the confreaks website. Source Code View Video Online Here Download Here

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