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Git 1.5.6 released
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Git 1.5.6 released
Git 1.5.6 has been released, and there are a lot of usability fixes and tweaks which should make the upgrade worth your while. Looking at the detailed list of changes since 1.5.5, it looks like submodules have been getting quite a bit of love from m
Git lessons learned
Lessons learned from day to day use with various ruby and rails projects. * Submodules completely suck when things get complex - I’m moving away from no submodules, and using direct exports for now until I have time to research braid or piston
Refactotum Rails Conf 2008
I’m in Portland for Rails Conf with over 80% of the Relevance crew. We were testing out our “plane number” yesterday, but thank goodness American didn’t let us down. We’ll be speaking today at about how to contribute to
Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?
A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and effective. I now am going to digress a bit, take a step back and view the big picture to establish context. Before addressing test performance and what makes up a good test, we
CapGun Released! Super simple Capistrano deployment notifications
Tell everyone about your releases! Send email notification after Capistrano deployments! Rule the world! Drop your ActionMailer configuration information into your deploy.rb file, configure recipients for the deployment notifications, and setup the
history meme onwards…
rsanheim@ares:~$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 71 gst 67 l 38 **** 38 c 28 git 22 ss 21 gca 13 gsd 13 : 12 rake I like keeping it short. The 3rd one thats bleeped out is a shortcut
If you think Huddle is ripping off Campfire
…then you haven’t seen mIRC, an irc client app that has been around for years: See anything familiar in the screen shot above? Tabs on the top, list of participants in the right hand pane, and chat in the main window. Change the font to
Zero to a Fully Git Enabled Rails App in the time it takes to drink an espresso
updated: now uses the real Rails git master at github, now that its live. So you want to set up a fresh Rails app in a fresh git repo, with proper ignores setup, with vendor/rails using a git submodule (which enables switching to any Rails branch or
log_buddy 0.0.2 released
Description log_buddy is your friendly little log buddy at your side, helping you dev, debug, and test. Synopsis Call LogBuddy.init to use log_buddy. It will add two methods to object instance and class level: “d” and “logger”
Rails is moving to Git (and Lighthouse)
The Rails core team is making a big move to Git (and Github) for source control and Lighthouse for issue tracking. I love the move to github - it will make managing patches and your small tweaks to Rails much easier to keep in sync with your chosen
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