Alvin Lai

I signed up for the 280Atlas Beta (one time fee of $20) and one of the first things I did was to create a native Cappuccino based app and take a windowed screenshot of it and guess what I found!

This isn’t really a bug, but just an observation on overflowing borders when taking windowed screenshots.

The border of the windowed screenshot is thicker than usual and overflowing, contrast this with a regular windowed screenshot:

Although the actual windowed screenshot looks fine:

In the meantime, check out how easy it is to create a native browser with Atlas.

Wished that git came with colors?

Got this in a recent email from the Singapore Ruby Group:


git config --global color.branch "auto"
git config --global color.status "auto"
git config --global color.diff "auto"


Thanks Dinesh!

You can find out more from errtheblog.

Nicely attached in Github:

Comment on existing Github issues:

and have them nicely show up too:

Check it out at http://freshlog.com

Enjoy!


./time_consuming_process.rb && say "Your time consuming process is done"


and you will hear Mac OS X tell you when its done while you go do other stuff.

You might notice that Selenium’s rake acceptance test would fail the second time because Firefox restored tabs that belonged to the first time you ran the acceptance test.

If you run Selenium for the first time round, you’ll end with 2 tabs, the second one being the results:

When you run the test again, the first tab (circled in red) which was created in the previous session (also the first Selenium test), restored by Firefox, also runs a parallael Selenium test, resulting test failures:

The way to fix this is to disable session restore in Firefox’s about:config:

But what if you love Firefox’s session restore feature? Create a separate Firefox profile for Selenium testing!

Go to Terminal.app then enter this to run Firefox’s Profile Manager:


/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -ProfileManager


Then modify /vendor/plugins/selenium-on-rails/lib/selenium-on-rails/acceptance_test_runner.rb:

Under the start_browser method, add a


-P Selenium


An example:


command = "\"#{path}\" -P Selenium \"http://#{HOST}:#{@port}#{TEST_RUNNER_URL}?test=tests&auto=true&baseUrl=#{base_url}&resultsUrl=postResults/#{log}&multiWindow=#{MULTI_WINDOW}\""


That would set Selenium to use Firefox with your newly created Selenium Profile, where you can turn off Session Restore just for that profile and still enjoy it in your default Firefox profile.