railsmonk

Mac-friendly Autotest — almost no CPU usage while idle

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:24:10 +0800

Mac-friendly Autotest — almost no CPU usage while idle

Absolutely awesome and inspiring Railsconf talk on dynamic...

Tue, 12 May 2009 14:44:02 +0800

Absolutely awesome and inspiring Railsconf talk on dynamic languages and TDD. Best of everything - humor, knowledge, experience and actor talent of presenter.

"If someone asks you, “Who is that guy?” then you probably won’t waste your breath..."

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:21:00 +0700

“If someone asks you, “Who is that guy?” then you probably won’t waste your breath by saying, “Him? A guy whose coding skills are terribly out of date, but who is not capable of performing any managerial duties.” Instead you’ll permit yourself to emit a nasty little swear word and simply say, “Him? Architect.” Ouch!”

- “Architect” is a swear word.

Get Ruby 1.9.1 running on OS X Leopard

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:16:55 +0700

Get Ruby 1.9.1 running on OS X Leopard

Probably old news, but for those who don’t know - GitX -...

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:46:11 +0700

Probably old news, but for those who don’t know - GitX - an awesome Git GUI client for Mac OS X.

History view, commit view - allows you not only to browse Git repository, but to commit stuff and split different changes in a single file into separate commits. Slick GUI too. Supports GitHub’s Gists ;-)

A moment of mindfulness for humanity.

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:19:56 +0700

A moment of mindfulness for humanity.

MemoryUsageLogger Plugin

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:52:07 +0700

I’m sure everybody knows about it already, but in case you don’t: http://github.com/binarylogic/memory_usage_logger.

Adds amount of memory used by current process to every line of Rails log, so that you see how memory usage grows during the request processing. Should be very useful for tracking memory leaks.

Thanks to EngineYard for the link! Best hosting ever, as usual.

anyway, 3rdrail just crashed, so I’m back to textmate. I don’t trust tool for developing...

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:24:39 +0700

anyway, 3rdrail just crashed, so I’m back to textmate. I don’t trust tool for developing software that was badly developed itself

3rdrail ide has very good code structure analysis engine that provides some neat tools. still miss...

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:24:38 +0700

3rdrail ide has very good code structure analysis engine that provides some neat tools. still miss textmate, but trying to get over it

Why Phusion Passenger better than Mongrel for development?

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:12:10 +0800

It starts new processors for new requests automatically, and kills them after they are not needed. So if you have a big site running locally, and you don’t want to setup mongrel cluster and load balancer, my advice is to go with Passenger. It’s really a piece of cake to setup if you have apache installed (and you do, if you’re on Mac or Linux).

Official Git Autocompletion Script for BASH

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:02:22 +0800

Official Git Autocompletion Script for BASH:

Installation instruction are in the header of the link. For the lazy it’s:

$ cd ~; wget [link]
$ echo 'source bash-git-completion.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

The script is just awesome, it’s very thorough and proivdes completion for commands, commands options, branch names, and all kinds of stuff.

The link to a file I posted points to my server, but if it’s down for some reason you can always get latest copy of this script at git contrib repository.

[PDF] Printable version of Git Cheatsheet

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:44:33 +0800

[PDF] Printable version of Git Cheatsheet:

Taken from http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git and post-processed to be easier on eyes when printed.

My StringTidy plugin

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:29:40 +0800

This is really tiny one.

About

Wraps Tidy gem into String for easier usage. Allows you to clean up portions of HTML code in strings, without any effort.

Requires Tidy gem and Tidy C lib (which is installed on Mac and most Unixes by default).

Defines String#tidy(options={})

Usage examples

Installation

gem install tidy
./script/plugin install \ git://github.com/railsmonk/string_tidy.git

Sources

http://github.com/railsmonk/string_tidy/tree/master

There’s also some other stuff on my github page, check it out.

No broken tests in git repos

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:56:20 +0800

Following code forbids commit to repository if tests don’t pass. Script for rspec, but should probably work with anything else - just replace rake spec with rake test.

"We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you..."

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:04:58 +0800

“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality.
When you understand this, you see that you are nothing,
and being nothing, you are everything.
That is all.”

- Kalu Rinpoche

ConfigurationFile plugin for Rails

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:27:00 +0800

My plugin to handle YAML configuration files in Rails apps.

For most cases just YAML::load will work, but in my case I needed string interpolation, so I decided to make a little plugin out of that.

Here’s simple usage pattern:

Feel free to fork and do whatever you want with this.

Update:
Forgot the link to plugin itself: http://github.com/railsmonk/configuration-file-plugin

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better..."

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:03:30 +0800

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

- Quote of the Day

life freezes without github

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:13:07 +0800

life freezes without github

Awesome Git cheatsheet

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:31:07 +0800

Awesome Git cheatsheet

$ open -a MyFavouriteApp # opens mac application from Terminal

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:23:35 +0800

$ open -a MyFavouriteApp # opens mac application from Terminal