Wow, today is a day of NEW THINGS. First autotest, growl and RSPEC, and now… The rails LOGFILE analyser. Pretty thing, time will tell if I will find it useful. You can find it Here.
Wonderful wonderful Copenhagen, no, wait, erm…. Autotest…
Over the last day or so, I have been playing with RSPEC. I must admit, its NICE. What makes it even nicer, is using autotest This is a nice addon that will automatically run your tests or rspecs when you…
Role based ACL handling in Rails Controllers
Came across this today. Neat take on the idea, and has some nifty features. Does not handle row based security in the models. but hey, one problem at a time. New Plugin ACL system
I Love…
… Test Driven Development. I was pulled off developing the next set of features for the application I support to do some urgently required changes on other parts of the application. I was doing work on this new section, and…
Model Security
Bruce Perens released an addon for Ruby on Rails. This addressed the requirement of limiting access to columns of the database depending on the specified user. Now, there was lots of interest, but when you actually dug into the code…
Not So Agile.
Here is a link to an interesting article ragarding the current interest in Agile ‘methods’ As it says, there ain’t no magic bullet. Good Agile, Bad Agile
The battle for a Heart and Mind (mine)
I sat in Cathay Pacific ( a chinese restaurant in the Trafford Centre ). In agony… Well, an agony of indecision, anyway. On my left shoulder a lone white figure, looking a bit nervous and lonely, glancing over at the…
Interesting Times.
We are definitely living in interesting times. As a coder I have lived through several eras. Text based applications – I coded in a mixture of 8088 assember, Basic (Compiled) and some “4GLs” like Sculptor and dBase Text and Graphic…
BBC Radio, you gotta love it.
Well, I have finished the coding for the radio capture system. I can now click on a radio .RAM link of the BBC website, and a request will be queued for download. A cron job will pick up the request…
RJS Templates
Well, When I started working with Ajax, I felt that it was a major problem that you could only update a single entity on your HTML page with an AJAX call. Problem solved. RJS Templates. You gotta love it. 🙂