.center {text-align:center}


2:Does CC use test database or production since i am getting error on config/environments/production.rb

3:Now i am using rspec for testing.How can set the path so that as soon as i type command for starting cruise i.e. ./cruise start then it should automatically fetch the testcases from Rspec.
What i have done is in cruise_config.rb i had done following:
case project.test
when ‘MyProject.Quick’ then project.rake_task = ’spec:controllers’
# when ‘MyProject.BigBertha’ then project.rake_task = ‘cruise:all_tests’
else raise “Don’t know what to build for project #{project.test.inspect}”
end
Please correct me if i am wrong?

cd vendor/rails
git submodule init
git submodule update

before you run the rails script, as these modules have been broken out of Rails Edge.

I setup CC for a RoR project last night and had issues with email as well. I discovered what I think is a bug in the CC.rb manual in terms of modifying the site_config.rb file.

Looking at the source code CruiseControl.rb it seemed that it was looking for site_config.rb in the [cruise_data] directory, not [cruise] (the project directory). I copied the file to [cruise_data] and voila, it worked.

I’m going to submit a bug report regarding the faulty instructions.

Chris

Sorry it’s taken me so long to reply. You need to update your frozen rails from the git repository. Or you can get the rails 3.0 pre installation which is now available.

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/home/adam/Web_Development/ghnn_web/test/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/commands/server.rb:6: uninitialized constant Rack::Server (NameError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
from script/server:3
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also, my environment.rb file looks like this:

# Load the rails application
require File.expand_path(’../application’, __FILE__)

# Initialize the rails application
Test.initialize!

…which is different from the usual.

warning: already initialized constant RAILS_ROOT
rake aborted!
uninitialized constant Rails::GemDependency

thanks,
paul

Now since you have got it working , I will give a try to it ..! …Can you tell me the version of cruisecontrolrb that you are running with ruby 1.8.7?

I do intend to release some videos of myself doing code katas (ala Corey Haines) which will be embeddable and probably downloadable. I appreciate the feedback and will do my best to provide top quality content for both you and them. I really think they have a terrific group of experts and a provide a great service to the community.

I’m probably going to record the audio with audacity from now on. It should help with the little bit of white noise on the audio and I can amplify it a little. I had the sound turned up all of the way, which tells me that I need to figure out how to work around the low volume.

If you have any other suggestions, I’d appreciate them as I’m still kind of new to this.

Few things for next time:
1) The quality of the screencast goes down considerably when I maximise the player. You should look into that for sure.

2) Speak up a bit. I can hear you but you can be a little bit louder.

Apart from that its quality.

http://github.com/n3bulous/seed4rails2/

The main benefits are handling all your seed data as YAML and being able to order them by just using a default seed.rb file, like:

http://github.com/n3bulous/seed4rails2/blob/master/seed4r2.rb

Still needs some improvements, but I’ve been short on time and its low on the priority list. #1 pending change is a rake task to generate a timestamped yaml file. #2 task is migrating my local day-job changes to the github version.

I think there are two different types of listeners out there:

1. Those that don’t have a lot of time and just want a quick podcast with focused content. This is the format I cater to with Ruby5. Think NPR news meets the Ruby world.

2. Those who have the time to listen to something a little more talky, and enjoy the banter which Jason and Dan do so well (better then I ever could) listen to Rails Envy.

The Ruby community needs more media like this (in my opinion), so it’s kinda cool that Jason and I figured out a way to create more. =)

FYI, we rarely cut stories. We try to find the 5-7 most interesting and educational stories for a Ruby/Rails developer.

When I was in a presentation by Kevlin Henney at NDC he mentioned something about should that made a lot of sense to me: “Should indicates that it may actually not do it”. Like “I should really do the dishes but I won’t”.

-Mark

I can also recommend “15 exercises to knowing .Net”, which, despite the name, is lots more than 15 exercises, and was intended by the author to be solved using any language. He even has a discussion about which languages might find a particular exercise easy or hard.
http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-know-a-programming-language-part-1/
http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-know-a-programming-language-part-2-data-structures/
http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-know-a-programming-language-part-3-libraries-frameworks-and-mashups/

http://github.com/hassox/warden/tree/master

sudo gem install nifty-generators

I feel you on some of your comments here. The duration of the cast definitely feels shorter then I’m used to, and I think I had to cut two stories from the cast to keep it under 5. eer.. under 6 rather.

Glad someone likes the campy sound effects. hehe… one person told me I used too many sound effects in the first Ruby5. You can’t make everyone happy I guess.

IMHO the Ruby community needs a news cast, and from what I’ve seen around the net those are usually about 5 minutes. I can take 5 minutes of news… more and I get board.

Hopefully this leaves the door more open to someone (maybe someone like you) to do a more campy, more dialogue, more lengthy and talky podcast. =)

I encouraged Jason to do this cast.. maybe you two should team up.. Just a thought.

Of course you can wrap this in a custom method for abstraction:

def impression( visitor )
self.impressions.create :visitor=>visitor
end


But I recommend against creating such abstractions until it’s necessary – there’s a good chance ActiveRecord associations will do. You can even extend them, take a look at “association extensions”:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html

I tend to end up doing this every time I use a polymorphic relationship

body {
text-align: center;
}
.wrapper {
width: 900px;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
}

Hope this helps :-)

With symbols, they are like Fixnum’s. You can refer to them in their immediate and immutable value, but you can’t change the Symbol. It’s like using 1. You can change your variables so they refer to 2, but then you’ve changed the reference, not the value itself. Incidentally, you can call to_i on a Symbol to convert it to it’s integer equivalent, but the integer doesn’t really actually tell you anything useful about the symbol.

link_to @post.owner.name, @post.owner should work as well. :)

lambda {
ZipCode.import_from_csv(File.dirname(__FILE__) + ‘/../fixtures/zips.csv’)
}.should_change(ZipCode, :count).by(100)

See http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec/1.2.8/classes/Spec/Matchers.html#M000435 for the documentation of that method.

http://pragprog.com/titles/achbd/the-rspec-book
http://rspec.info/
http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec/1.2.7
http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec (for other versions)
http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec-rails/1.2.7
http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec-rails (for other versions)
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net

helper_method :public_method_name

This makes your controller method a helper method as well.