I’m happy to announce that I’m Open Sourcing the Redmine Budget plugin. This is the plugin that I use to manage the set of deliverables for each project and to help estimate project costs. This plugin was sponsored by Shane Pearlman and Peter Chester of Shane and Peter. Features Add new deliverable to a project …
Tag: ruby on rails
Fail Loudly with osd_cat and autotest
A key to Test Driven Development is frequently run tests. These tests are used to judge the health of a project. Like in a hospital, when things deteriorate we have to be alerted right away. Ruby developers use autotest to monitor and run their test suite in the background. One problem with autotest is that …
Interesting Links #3
I upgraded a few Rails applications to 2.0 and found the following links helpful. In under an hour I was able to upgrade 2 applications from Rails 1.2 to 2.0. Rails 2.0: taking the plunge Pastie script to test for 2.0 Compatibility Upgrade to Rails 2.0 Upgrading to Rails 2.0. A Recipe
Interesting Links #2
Was able to start to catch up on some developer links I had bookmarked this week: No True “mod_ruby” Is Damaging Ruby’s Viability On The Web – Peter Cooper wants to know why there isn’t there a good mod_ruby for Apache. Merb 0.5.0 is out – Hot on the tails of my last set of …
Using Ruby on Rails for a Client Project
Depending on what your client needs, Ruby on Rails may or may not be a good technology choice. Whenever someone is looking for a new project I go through this mental checklist to see if Ruby on Rails would be the best fit for them: 1. Does the project call for a web based application? …