This week in open source

factory_girl

There’s a new version of factory_girl this week, as usual: 3.1.1 (aa81d2f).

Mark Rushakoff (mark-rushakoff) fixed a typo (4682ab0). Have I mentioned how much I love documentation fixes? Because I do.

Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) ensured that FactoryGirl.attributes_for works with has_many associations (50be545). He also refactored Strategies to be modules instead of classes, and added an Evaluation façade to make building strategies easier (89d5e94).

flutie

flutie got some love this week from Edwin Morris (ehmorris), who changed values from pixels to ems (fd26ed0) and these new-fangled CSS3 “rems”. REMs are relative to the base element’s size, not to the parent’s size (more here). I wish I’d had that back in the day.

paperclip

paperclip got a bunch of bug fixes from Prem Sichanugrist (sikachu). He fixed the content_type validator to allow blanks and nils (5eed1dc), ensured that code dealt with the content type, not the MimeType (3f1d30f), closed ALL the files (4f6d482), and removed unused code (yay!) (02eb725).

Sebastien Guignot (sguignot) fixed attachment.reprocess! when using Fog or S3 (9d1355b).

Kir Maximov (kir) fixed a problem with an incorrect content_type (3e98fc2).

shoulda-matchers

shoulda-matchers continues to improve. Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw - that’s me!) added tests for Rails 3.2 (aff2824) and bumped rspec-rails (5baa056). As ever, the NEWS file is the place to watch for updates to functionality.

Aaron Gibralter (agibralter) fixed the ensure_length_of matcher to check for all possible I18n error messages (0a8e652), meaning our internationalized users aren’t left with false negatives in their tests.

Victor Pereira (vpereira) added the in_array method (e40e2cb) to the ensure_inclusion_of matcher, meaning you can do it { should ensure_inclusion_of(:attribute).in_array(%w[cat dog]) now.

This Week in Open Source

kumade

Lots and lots of changes to kumade this week!

Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw - that’s me!) cleaned up the code a bit (afb29cf, fda26ee, 39c0a32, 7e255bf, and 75403a7).

I switched the order of arguments to Git#initialize to match the rest of the gem (62e9202). I made a couple of minor changes to the specs (8949cdc, f1d82ed, and 7b5e6ea). And, of course, some README fixes (1d40e91 and 2e66cb2).

I merged Marcos Tapajós’ (tapajos) pull request removing sample output, since it’s rapidly outdated (4d2b13e).

Marcos also fixed an issue where the deploy branch wasn’t deleted if the deploy failed (ba8a264). He also added Cocaine, thoughtbot’s CLI wrapper, to fix the problem of printing output to the terminal (866f946).

Harold Giménez (hgimenez) ensured good code quality and removed some mocks (bdbb486 and 28f79b2). I learned that begin/ensure will re-raise an error after the ensure block runs, while begin/rescue/end will swallow the error. Harold always brings the knowledge.

Jon Yurek (jyurek) added an awesome feature: automatic detection of an application’s stack (6bd53af and b65ca45). As of version 0.3.0, Marcos Tapajós (tapajos) removed the -c option (fbdb609) since kumade now autodetects the current stack. Jon also noticed that Travis CI doesn’t have 1.8.7-p249 and removed it (8e94343).

Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) sprang into action and renamed Runner to CLI (e222538). He also made kumade use autoload (c01085e). You can read more about autoload here.

Kumade development is happening fast, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t contribute! The fast pace means that most pull requests will get a response within a day, so whether it’s documentation or a new module, send in your changes!

suspenders

Mike Burns (mike-burns) updated suspenders for Rails 3.1.0 this week. jQuery is part of Rails 3.1.0, so he removed it (be26211). Suspenders now uses the --database option to generate a Postgres database.yml (94010c2). You can read more about the --database option at the Rails command line guide. And finally, with Rails 3.1.0 in the Gemfile (3f06a65), we’re all set for Rails 3.1.0!

paul_revere

Matt Jankowski (mjankowski) worked on paul_revere, our “one off” announcement plugin. It’s now tested against Rails 3.0.10 and 3.1.0 (31bdfdd). He also converted the tests from Test::Unit to RSpec in commit 447808d, certainly a welcome change.

shoulda-matchers

Mike Burns (mike-burns) told shoulda-matchers bug reporters where to stick it (0a70502).

bourbon

bourbon, our set of vanilla Sass mixins, got some love this week.

Chris Lloyd (chrislloyd) removed some Bourbon mixins that wrote Sass into files, which also fixed some @import problems with Rails 3.1 (3c3ffcd).

Jeremy Raines (jraines) added documentation on using Bourbon outside of rails (5e005b9).

Our very own Phil LaPier (plapier) released version 0.1.6 (da56992) and then version 0.1.7 the next day (7afb43c). He also updated the readme.md (a lowercase filename, in a bold departure from the thoughtbot standard) (ea553ba).

And Matt Jankowski (mjankowski) has zero tolerance for made-up words (74b4450).

high_voltage

Matt Jankowski (mjankowski) converted high_voltage’s test to RSpec (4925fd5). (cdfa644) He updated the gem authors as well (7a110f5). The tests now run using an in-memory SQLite database (a689718). And the Rails 3.1 love continues with 3.1 tests using appraisal 4dd575d) and a version bump to 1.0.

pacecar

Matt Jankowski (mjankowski) updated pacecar for Rails 3.1 (commit list) and updated the factories to use Factory Girl 2.0’s hot new syntax (f9ce3e5).

flutie

Matt Jankowski (mjankowski) did a bunch of work on flutie. He added appraisal (90aad4a) and body_class and page_title helpers (commit list). He also added a fix for Rails 3.1 stylesheet expansions (92718a0), and followed that up with a version bump to 1.2.5 (f70068e).

Matt also fixed flutie to run on Rails 3.1.0 this week. It now correctly uses the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline (commit list). Get version 1.3.1 while it’s hot!

paperclip

paperclip had a good amount of activity this week.

Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw - me again!) fixed a typo (ae781ac).

Prem Sichanugrist (sikachu) bumped the version to 2.4.1. This version brings a basic integration test (3131601), interoperability with Factory Girl 2.0 (d639d5e), removal of a duplicate test (cb6efaa), and set the logger to a Railsy logger if in Rails (37385dd).

Chris Oliver and Prem Sichanugrist fixed an incorrect option that was being passed to `file` (23cd662).

factory_girl

Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw - me again!) made some documentation fixes to factory_girl (4d4b5d9 and db82ccc).

Stephan Eckardt and Josh Clayton added FactoryGirl.modify, which allows you to re-open defined Factories (14b8245). This can be helpful when dealing with vendor-supplied factories, like from a gem.

Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) bumped FactoryGirl to 2.1.0 (386848d). He also committed code to assign created_at for stubbed models (00503ee). One very nice addition is FactoryGirl.reload, which clears all defined factories and then reloads definitions (3798144).

Finally, Josh fixed up the documentation (661e8ff, 370d8a6, 7fd7d95, 1f0e2eb, 9bacd0c, and 0529a87)

dotfiles

Dan Croak (croaky) fixed up the thoughtbot dotfiles and made tmux announce itself as a 256-color terminal so that Vim color schemes look breathtakingly vibrant (dc4c65e).

clearance

Our own Dan Croak (croaky) changed clearance to put more dependencies in the gemspec (90ca670).

appraisal

Mike Burns (mike-burns) added group support to appraisal (1df64a1).

factory_girl_rails

Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) worked on factory_girl_rails, bumping the version to 1.2.0 (c7d54d2) and updating its dependency to factory_girl 2.1.0 (5518b91).