Gem Versioning and Bundler: Doing it Right
Recently, an upgrade to Rake (from version 0.8.7 to version 0.9.0) has re-raised the issue of dependencies and versioning in the Ruby community. I wanted to take the opportunity to reiterate some of the things I talked about back when working on Bundler 1.0. First, I’ll lay out some basic rules for the road, and...
Gem Versioning and Bundler: Doing it Right
Recently, an upgrade to Rake (from version 0.8.7 to version 0.9.0) has re-raised the issue of dependencies and versioning in the Ruby community. I wanted to take the opportunity to reiterate some of the things I talked about back when working on Bundler 1.0. First, I’ll lay out some basic rules for the road, and...
How do I keep multiple Ruby projects separate?
How do I keep multiple Ruby projects separate? This guest post is by Steve Klabnik, who is a software craftsman, writer, and former startup CTO. Steve tries to keep his Ruby consulting hours down so that he can focus on maintaining Hackety Hack and being a core member of Team Shoes, as well as writing...
Bundler: As Simple as What You Did Before
One thing we hear a lot by people who start to use bundler is that the workflow is more complicated than it used to be when they first start. Here’s one (anonymized) example: “Trying out Bundler to package my gems. Still of the opinion its over-complicating a relatively simple concept, I just want to install...
August 31, 2010: Bundled Mockingjays
Book Status Editing the RSpec chapter, which I expect to be done today, it’s all done except for a couple of hard questions from the editor which last-night me decided to leave for this-morning me, so that last-night me could finish Mockingjay. Thanks, last-night me! A Bundler Question I’m not sure whether this is a...
July 30, 2010: I Always Thought It Was An Animal Native To The Rain Forest
Book Status Beta 5 came out on Wednesday. Currently trying to figure out how to structure the Shoulda chapter in light of the direction that project has gone in since I wrote about it for the Lulu book. Friday Links One significant change in Rails 3 is that, because of the way Bundler works, the...
May 10, 2010: The need for eyeballs
Top Story Let’s start with this: there’s a small but embarrassing typo in the Pragazine article code. Especially since it was a) called out by the author of Mocha and b) was a direct copy from the book, and from the Lulu version before that, so it’s been public for about a year, and I’ve...
April 22, 2010: Annnd We’re Live. Really. I mean it this time.
Top Story So, about yesterday… Funny story. Some of you may have gone to the Rails Test Prescriptions book site hoping to buy the book only to see a conspicuous lack of an “Add to Cart” button. The book was for sale for about ten minutes, just long enough for me to start jumping up...
April 19, 2010: The Week Begins
Top Story/Book Status This is the week — Rails Test Prescriptions should go on beta sale on Wednesday. In a related story, railsrx.com now points to here, railsprescriptions.com also will shortly. I’ll be adding some basic about information and static pages here. At some point, I’ll probably bring over any blog content from the previous...
April 15, 2010: The Library of Congress Recommends the Following Tweets
Top Story As part of the Chirp conference, Twitter and the Library of Congress jointly announced that the Library will be storing Twitter’s entire public archive. I’m sure your expecting an easy joke about how many sandwiches the LoC now knows about in their archive, or about how scholarly papers about the archive will be...
April 13, 2010: iAd, youAd, weAll Ad
Top Story iPads. Lots of them popping up in and around work. Probably some more coherent impressions coming later. Wait, once again, Twitter has a big announcement after I start writing this. This time, they are going to start placing ads in the Twitter stream in various ways to be announced today. My quick reactions:...
