Fustrations

I have started a new project and it was decided that we should use authlogic with Rails 3. Man, I am having a brutal time getting it going.

The scaffold generators and all that stuff keep breaking on "attributes="

script_finder 1.0

Great news, I got my changes into script_finder and Tobias (@tcrawley) updated the version and release gem to 1.0.0.

Updated gem release

Later this week, considering how slow work is going to be, I am contemplating attacking the known issues for the gem and figuring out how to get rails to specify what commands it supports and strip them off of the command line return.

And I am super stoked considering this is my first solo contribution to the community!

Tobias' script_finder gem

I took a quick break from coding my web page to help myself out. I cut a branch of script_finder, a gem that I have become addicted to in recent months. There was a minor issue with it. It was not wired to work with Rails 3.

I did some grinding on it and sent Tobias an email or twelve letting him know what I was doing as well as asking for feedback. I did a "final" commit today and send up a pull request. Lets see what happens.


Tobias script_finder

My Chain Maille project's conversion to Rails 3

This week I took the time to upgrade my new project from Rails 2 to Rails 3. Thank your respective deity that I did so. There are a few complaints. I miss having to manually hack in bundler's gem management as well as the long complicated routes file. Where, I ask you, will I spend those hours debugging that used to boil down to a bad route configuration? Where? I shutter at the thought of being able to read my routes file and not have to fight with gem versions.

One thing that truly bothered me, a minor annoyance but one none the less, was that script_finder no longer works. I think I will have to fork the project and provide a Rails 3 version, that is of course, unless someone can provide me with a link to the Rails 3 friendly version.

ActiveMessaging and Rails 3

For those of us upgrading our applications to Rails 3 there is something nasty to watch out for if you are also using ActiveMessaging. The Google Active Messaging group covers some of the issues that have been found.

 Make sure to take a look at Spraints' fork.

http://github.com/spraints/activemessaging

Windy City Rails

Few of us here at Backstop attended Windy City Rails  this weekend.  It was a good time with a bunch of good speakers including  Jake Scruggs covering a ton of topics and providing a massive amount of info.

During the course of the day WCR had a little project written in Rails 3. We, as a collective coded the Dojo Chat Server. Intresting little toy considering it was written in under 8 hours by a group of people with varying levels of experence and decidation to the project.

Just thought it was an interesting experience.