http://alvinlai.com In search of Passion Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://alvinlai.com/2009/11/18/first-look-at-280atlas-beta/ 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 here: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git http://alvinlai.com/2009/11/16/add-color-to-git/ Nicely attached in Github: Comment on existing Github issues: and have them nicely show up too: Check it out at http://freshlog.com Enjoy! :) http://alvinlai.com/2009/11/12/freshlog-now-supports-github/ ./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. http://alvinlai.com/2009/11/09/get-mac-os-x-to-tell-you-when-your-time-consuming-process-is-done/ 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 ... http://alvinlai.com/2009/11/05/get-selenium-on-rails-to-use-a-separate-firefox-browser-profile/ Edit .git/info/exclude and add your directories, i.e.: /log/* /db/schema.rb http://alvinlai.com/2009/11/04/git-ignore/ After a git commit and push, the next command you might run is cap deploy. But how about running your tests? If you don't want to run any extra commands beyond git commit/push and cap deploy, you'll want to look having your Capistrano script run your Rake tests locally too. The Capistrano ... http://alvinlai.com/2009/11/04/run-rake-tasks-locally-in-capistano-with-quit-on-failure/ Selenium on Rails is just plain awesome, providing an web testing interface that doesn't interfere with your main code. That said, there's a Firefox plugin called Selenium IDE that records your actions in Firefox and generates tests for use with Selenium, how cool is that! The only problem is, Selenium IDE ... http://alvinlai.com/2009/10/30/installing-rselenese-in-selenium-ide/   Hi there! I'm Alvin and my friends know me as an unrepentant geek whom they can turn to for solutions. I love hacking (don't mix that up with the illegal stuff), putting things together that aren't meant to be used by default in a certain way to solve problems. Some of my previous ... http://alvinlai.com/2009/02/16/exciting-work-needed/ http://alvinlai.com/2008/12/22/education/