Test upcoming browsers automatically via jsTestDriver
We’ve been using jsTestDriver (JSTD) along with the Jasmine BDD library via jasmine-jstd-adapter. We’re also using some glue code I wrote called jasmine-jstd-conf which writes a jsTestDriver config...
View ArticleMy thoughts on GitHub for Mac
I recently wrote a comment for “GitHub for Mac: Easier Updates”. Since it sums up my feelings on several subjects (including my feelings about the future of OS X), I thought I should repost it here....
View ArticleWindyCityRails 2012
South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago(Photo: Jeff Zoline CC BY-NC 2.0) WindyCityRails was a lot of fun. As I’ve done in the past, I took notes and put them into an open wiki on GitHub. Some quick stats:...
View ArticleMaid presentation
Since I wasn’t able to make it to the newhaven.rb meetup, I ended up presenting about Maid at ICRuby today. I was happy there was quite a bit of interest. I thought I’d share my (quick and dirty)...
View Articledatabase configuration does not specify adapter
From an answer I wrote for StackOverflow: Another possible cause: In Rails 3.2.x, establish_connection has a default argument set from the environment: From connection_specification.rb: def...
View ArticleThat’s not doing quite what you think…
I recently helped an intern at Hedgeye work through a problem with a database query. Because I’m working in a separate timezone, I ended up making suggestions through a GitHub pull request. We...
View ArticleHow do I embed images inside a GitHub wiki (gollum) repository?
After pushing images into the wiki repository (clone, add images, push), you can use relative paths like so: [[foo.jpg]] For more info, see the demo wiki’s page on images. Update (2012-05-02): This is...
View ArticleMaid v0.3.0 release!
I released Maid v0.3.0 yesterday, after using Maid v0.3.0 Beta 1 for over a week myself. It was also downloaded 36 times, without any known bugs reported by beta test team. From the change log: Only...
View ArticleSSH Agent Forwarding with Vagrant AWS
The in-progress Vagrant AWS has a lot of promise, especially for devops. The ability to test your Puppet or Chef scripts on an EC2 instance using Vagrant is very tempting. Unfortunately, it’s not yet...
View ArticleFallback font for non-Mac users
Recently merged into MailView: Closes #27 Pretty simple: just add a fallback font family. Without this change, the headers (to, from, etc) are in Times New Roman on Linux, which looks really out of...
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