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Nice new edge feature: test/do declaration style testing

over 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Rails 2 introduced ActiveSupport::TestCase and friends, RoR's enhancement of Test::Unit. Those extra classes made testing Rails controllers easier and...

Why you should upgrade to Rails 2.1

over 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
If you are following my twitter stream you have probably read me rambling about a security hole in Rails With Rails 2.1 out for a while I though I should...

why I love the windows experience

over 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Ok, this is not Microsoft's fault, but it is a perfect example for the windows experience. While working on a nasty IE JavaScript bug in my windows VM...

Gem permissions

over 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Lately I've seen several people struggling with an error message like this: `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- sqlite3/database This...

RailsConf Europe 2008

over 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Day two of RailsConf Europe 2008 is over and so are my two sessions. On tutorial day Mathias and I did a 4h workshop on deploying and monitoring Rails...

GoodBad.me - RailsRumble 2008

over 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
RailsRumble 2008 is over - after 48 hours of hacking I'm proud to announce our contestant: GoodBad.me - Twitter Till Judgement Day! GoodBad...

Webistrano 1.4 released

over 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
I just released Webistrano 1.4. Webistrano is a tool for managing Capistrano deployments and offers a rich web UI. It lets you manage projects with their...

What to put into Rake tasks

almost 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
As a consultant for Peritor I often review other peoples code. What I often encounter and always address is custom logic in Rake tasks. Rake is...

Scotland on Rails 2009 Slides

almost 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
I know, it is a bit late, but here are my slides from Scotland on Rails: Advanced DeploymentView more presentations from jweiss. The slides are...

Fragement Caching Tip

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
We are in the process of testing the new version of MeinProf.de and crossed a very interesting bug. We are using fragment caching to speed up the serving...