romey nows run on edge rails.

It started with me trying the scope_out plugin as suggested by Ryan Bate’s awesome railscasts, episode 76. Then I read about named_scope from Ryan Daigle. named_scope is previously known as the has_finder gem so I decided to give the gem a go. After I started using it I decided to pistonise romey with edge rails to save myself the trouble of migrating from has_finder to named_scope when the next version of rails is released.

I can say that named_scope has been a huge help in paying back a lot of the technical debt in romey, particularly in making models fat and controllers slimmer.

All in all, it was a great experience cleaning up romey and going back to development on edge again. You can read about some of the new features coming soon here if you are not already following it via rails trac.

update: I should do another release of romey soon.

The archive view. Also we can starting tagging and I saw them mentioned comments.

Though tagging is not yet searchable or browsable but things are looking good.

Here’s a little 1 liner that let you find all the svn directories in the current folder.

find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -name .svn -type d | sed -e's/\.svn//' 

Didn’t know I got mentioned in that blog :)

Firefox 3 (I installed beta 4) seems faster than Firefox 2 but still slower than Safari.

Found a website that doesn’t work very well in Safari though… my modem admin page LOL.

Note to self, must change google code to send me a notification when an issue is raised in bug tracker.

Julian, sorry for the delay. I’m happy to post the move brace code if you still want it.

Checked out what’s new with Google Code and discovered this.

We’ve always valued clean URLs for project home pages, and have used http://code.google.com/p/PROJECTNAME since we started offering project hosting. Now, projects can also be reached via an even cleaner URL: http://PROJECTNAME.googlecode.com.

Sweet, I’ve just been using google search which worked well enough but now I don’t have too.

I am ashamed that it has already been around since July last year and I didn’t discover it until now.

OMG I am afraid to touch office furnitures, door nobs, tap handles etc.

I have seen guys who take a piss without washing their hands. But now I just saw a guy who took a dump without washing their hands!!

Be interesting to go through the CIO interviews to see who’s up for some outsourcing.

So far the ones I know of are:

• Peter Dowd CommInsure
• Tony Forward BT Financial Group

After Steelpixel transferred my hosting plan over to Railsplayground, I still have hosting up to end of 2009.

I haven’t been using it since the rollover and I am getting tempted to start using it again. Tumblr has been serving me well but there are some features that I would like, e.g. tagging. If I am using my own host then I will have more control. I can even reinstate my SoloWiki.

A couple of reasons why I haven’t done it, a) I can’t stand another downtime with shenie.info and b) when Steelpixel went down I was saying to myself I don’t need the hassle of running my own shit.

I must be getting itchy hands again.

I am liking Safari more and more now. It’s so damn fast. Firefox has 1 last advantage for me and that is plugins for developers. But I think I’ll switch daily browsing to Safari for a while and see how it goes.

“All software has bugs, no matter what the licence”

That reminded me how naive one of the developer I was in the meeting claiming that there are no bugs in their system. LOL.

Even stranger is that the solution architect asking us to trust the data coming to our interface because the it has been validated by 3 layers before getting to our interface.

I don’t care how many layers it has been through, applications are responsible for anything it commits to its database. Trust no one unless you want crap data going into the system.