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October 29, 2012

adarshp

This Week in Open Source

High Voltage

High Voltage is a Rails engine for static pages.

You can now use it with Rails 4 thanks to Arvid Andersson (arvida) in 176895f.

Capybara Webkit

Capybara Webkit is a Capybara driver for headless WebKit so you can test Javascript web apps.

You can expect fewer bugs in it thanks to Matthew Horan (mhoran) in 7289a8e and f20d32d.

You can use it with Qt 4.8 thanks to Matthew and Joe Ferris (jferris) in 67b8a33, cbb58d0, f95e4eb, ecfa783, e9a4b77, and e531c1a, and cae5119.

You can expect nodes hidden with css rule visibility: hidden to correctly return false on visible? thanks to Timur Vafin (timurvafin) in 3bab97d.

Dotfiles

Dotfiles are a set of Vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files.

You can now tab complete in Vim even faster thanks to Dan Croak in c7efed4.

You can do some awesome git things in Vim thanks to fugitive.vim in d836af8:

  • :Gblame for interactive vertical split with git blame output.
  • :Ggrep to search the work tree (or any arbitrary commit) with git grep.
  • :Glog to load all previous revisions of a file into the quickfix list so you can iterate over them and watch the file evolve.
  • :Gbrowse to open the current file on GitHub, with optional line range (try it in visual mode) .

You can safely ignore certain files in git repositories machine-wide thanks to Dan in 0060e0a.

You also now have a clear strategy for managing files with personal information like ~/.gitconfig in a shared dotfiles repo thanks to Joe and Dan in 52b2ee1.

Bourbon

Bourbon is a lightweight mixin library for Sass.

You can now optionally use Rails’ asset pipeline in the font-face mixin thanks to Phil LaPier (plapier) in f93cf9e.

Suspenders

Suspenders is a CLI for creating Rails apps with thoughtbot defaults.

When you use Suspenders-generated Rails apps, you’ll now automatically track your slowest-running specs thanks to Dan Croak (croaky) in 69c7fdd.

You will also automatically track your test coverage thanks to Joe Ferris (jferris) in 2787281 44c51c1.

The validity of your factories will always be tested first thanks to Dan in 52444eb.

Your Ruby version will be determined by your Gemfile thanks to Dan in 389ceda.

You will bundle using binstubs and the 37signals’ bin/stubs directory convention thanks to Dan in 4b7e40a.

You can format time through localization thanks to Dan in fbf3fcd.

Your Postgres database will automatically be configured to encode using UTF-8 thanks to Yi-Ting Cheng (xdite) in c2c46a7.

You can use these new features in Suspenders version 1.1.5.

Factory Girl

Factory Girl is a library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

You can now use a block with build_list and create_list so you can call methods on each instance of the array thanks to bbugh in 488e42d.

Bourne

Bourne adds test spies to mocha.

You can now see the master Travis CI build thanks to Harlow Ward (harlow) in 74dd8f4.

Paul Revere

Paul Revere is a library for “one off” announcements in Rails apps.

Support for Rails 2 apps will be dropped in Paul Revere versions greater than 1.1 thanks to Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) in e8ae883.

March 9, 2012

lolconomy

This week in open source

bourbon

So this bourbon gem…people seem to like it: there was a RailsCast about it and the principle author (Phil LaPier) will be speaking at Frontend United about it.

This week people cleaned up the obsolete CSS attributes: Thibaut (Thibaut) removed -moz-inline-block (d73ea46), Chad Mazzola removed both -ms-border-radius and -o-border-radius (10a5908), and Phil LaPier (plapier) removed -moz-box-orient (6331e26). Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) fixed support for Rails 2 (eacd5ee and e9347e7) and, lesson learned, removed Gemfile.lock (671ad33).

factory_girl

Version 2.6.3 of factory_girl is out, all y’all. In this action-packed version we got a cucumber step named e.g. Given the following post exists (note the lack of : at the end), via cj (cj) (d4b8cac and 48afe24). Barun Singh (barunio) fixed a bug where the factory’s traits weren’t compiled in the very first time the factory was used (68ca50f), plus a factory can use all the traits on any ancestor (f14a8cf). Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) is now listed as an author (07d2834), so congrats to him and his hard work. As part of that hard work he discovered that the vintage syntax broke in MRI 1.9.2-p318, and then fixed it (a7acc3e).

This just in! Version 3.0.0.rc1 is now public! It breaks everything, again! Please try it and open issues with what breaks:

gem 'factory_girl', '3.0.0.rc1'

bourne

Oh hey version 1.1.1 of bourne is out (650afb0)! Bourne is an extension to mocha that adds test spies so your tests can read like normal tests. Tristan Dunn (tristandunn) added support for mocha 0.10.5 (286d8f9) and fixed a long-standing error message that occurs when you forget to stub a method before spying on it (17dc7d2).

Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw), who pushed the release, also did some maintainance: adding Travis CI notifications to the README (7d6eb37), removing Gemfile.lock (950a445), and some general code cleanups (4bbe610 and b0f1f99).

shoulda-matchers

The big deal in shoulda-matchers over the past week was when Fujimura Daisuke (fujimura) added the ability to specify the key for the flash message in the set_the_flash matcher (0e0339e, ef866e2, and fd4aa53):

it { should set_the_flash[:alert].to("Password doesn't match") }

Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) did his usual maintainance of converting the docs to use Markdown (85c37c4), cleaning up the ModelBuilder that’s used in the tests (31595b0), and showing off how often our build is broken in the README using Travis CI (eebb806), which he also did to shoulda proper (7d805d0).

cocaine

Also victim to the Travis CI treatment was cocaine, via Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) again (ac47b6f and 490c406).

paperclip

The paperclip project is gearing up for a groundbreaking (maybe app-breaking?) release, but in the meantime Mike Boone (boone) fixed an infinitely-growing PATH environment variable (06d69af) while Mike Burns (mike-burns)—also known as: me—totally broke backward compatibility by changing the default :path and :url configuration setting (26f4d40). These new settings avoid overwriting files on different models and also scales to more than 1024 instances of the same model.

capybara-webkit

In capybara-webkit news, Joe Ferris (jferris) controversially allowed the user to interact with invisible elements (02f2a8a), and caught the fact that Capybara.timeout is deprecated (4d954b7).