Yesterday, the Rails team released 2.3.4, which includes standardized way for loading seed data into your application so that you didn’t have to clutter your database migrations.
I noticed a few comments on some blogs where people were asking how to use this new feature, so here is a quick runthrough a few ways that you...
Inspired by some recent posts from Tom on zsh, I decided that I’d do my part to help people give it a whirl. I’ve been using zsh for a few years now and haven’t found myself missing bash.
If you’re interested in taking a few minutes to give zsh a while, you’re in luck. I...
Chris Wanstrath (@defunkt) just posted the following on twitter.
“Hello Rip – http://hellorip.com/“
The Rip project describes itself as, “an attempt to create a next generation packaging system for Ruby.”
One of the cool features is that it supports multiple environments. For example, you can have different Rip environments (with different gem versioning) that are...
A quick follow-up to a post from a few months ago on how our team has a naming convention for git branches when we’re working on Lighthouse tickets (read previous post).
I’ve just put together a quick git hook for commit-msg, which will automatically amend the commit message with the current ticket number when you’re...
We’re currently using Lighthouse as our ticketing system with clients for maintenance/bug requests. We’re also using Github for all of our major client projects. I’m sure that many of you take advantage of the Lighthouse service that Github allows you to use so that your commits can trigger actions on your tickets in Lighthouse.
If you’re...
