Git and GitHub Revised Course
Git and GitHub Course Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s popular Git and GitHub course. This is an introductory but an intensive, online course for beginners. Here you’ll learn the essential features of both Git and GitHub that you’ll end up using every day. What’s Git and GitHub? Git is an open source version control...
June 23, 2011: Distributed Magic Control
1. Today’s News: Github for Mac Odds are you heard this one already, but the fine folks at GitHub announced a Mac desktop client. It differs from, say, GitX in that it attempts to be a front end to your entire GitHub account rather than one particular repo. I haven’t used it a ton yet,...
How does one effectively combine Ruby with Git for source control?
How does one effectively combine Ruby with Git for source control? This guest post is by Erik Andrejko, a software developer living in San Francisco who spends his days working on web applications and solving data mining and machine learning problems integrating Ruby, Clojure and Java. When not spending time with his family, he blogs...
June 16, 2010: What Shoulda We Do?
Top Story Thoughtbot talks about their plans for Shoulda moving forward. The big takeaway is that, while the context library will be separated out for use in Test::Unit, both Shoulda style and Shoulda effort will be focused on RSpec integration. I have some complicated thoughts about this one. I’m thrilled that Shoulda is being maintained...
June 11, 2010: Get Ready for Whyday
Looks like I did get a few links gathered yesterday. I’m also working on a post about PeepOpen, TextMate, and RubyMine, I had an interesting day with all of them yesterday. I also remember working on a book-like thing once upon a time, and the whole point of doing this daily blog was to give...
May 25, 2010: Betas
Top Story Beta 3 should be out today. The main change in this Beta is the inclusion of the Cucumber chapter, which has been updated both in terms of new tech, and also in terms of conclusions about how to use Cucumber. And In Rails news… When last we met, Rails 2.3.6 had just been...
May 14: Moving To Beta 3
Top Story Just a quick update here. Cucumber chapter newest draft is complete, and I’m hoping it will be beta 3 early next week. Not sure what to do next, I need to look around and see what’s relatively stable with respect to Rails 3. The book is still on sale. Tell all your friends....
April 27, 2010, Now Writing About Cucumbers
Top Story For me, the top story is still Rails Test Prescriptions on sale, and my discussion yesterday of the raffle for the old Lulu customers. Book Status Now re-doing the Cucumber chapter, which was written long enough ago that it didn’t consider tags. Cucumber has had approximately seventy-million releases in the interim, so there’s...
April 23, 2010: Still Alive
Top Story If you think the top story is going to be anything other than the continued launch of Rails Test Prescriptions, well, you probably don’t know me very well. I may not be a marketing genius, but I do know the value of repetition. I mean, if there’s one thing I know, it’s the...
Rails Rx Standup: April 12, 2010
Top Story For a while, it looked like the top story was going to be Apple’s new developer Rule 3.3.1, described here by John Gruber. More on that in a second. But the real top story is the news that Twitter has bought Tweetie, intending to rebrand it as Twitter for iPhone, and dropping the...
Fixing the Heroku "Too many authentication failures for git" problem
Getting an error like this when you push to Heroku?
electricsheep:herokuapp look$ git push heroku master
Received disconnect from 75.101.163.44: 2: Too many authentication failures for git
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
If ...
Double Shot #572
There is no apparent end of code that needs to be written.
wysihat-engine-demo – Quick way to see the wysihat editing control in action.
RailsBridge Bugmash VM Script – Script to build your own server to test the Rails source code from zero.
bigrecord – ActiveRecord replacement to use distributed stores like HBase.
Heroku Add-ons – Solr, New Relic,...
