This Week in Open Source

trail-map

Lots of activity on trail-map this week. Thanks to Mike Munroe (mikepmunroe) for catching a broken link 1025a32. Adarsh Pandit (adarshpandit) added a Code Review trail e46792c and Gareth Rees (garethrees) added links for different style guides 4cf0643 47b6002. We had help from Dan Croak (croaky), who fixed some bad links d82a944 889aee8, a grammatical error 13e1335, copy-editing 6d2402c, and removed the .gitignore f2f147a.

shoulda-matchers

shoulda-matchers got some refactoring from Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) 7f208e7 and Jason Draper (drapergeek) tightened up ensure_inclusion_of for array matching dc5daca.

cocaine

cocaine got some help from Jon Yurek (jyurek) including removing official support for REE 6073cd0 and switching the order of pipe-reading and waiting 69d6b6c.

paperclip

In paperclip, Jon Yurek (jyurek) removed some ternary operators in favor of ifs 65f4941, and added a test to prevent regression of the E2BIG problem 69bcf6e.

factory_girl

Phil Cohen (phlipper) added MiniTest syntax methods to the GETTING_STARTED.md page for factory_girl in 06ff258.

neat

neat got some help from Reda Lemeden (kaishin) including a fix for breakpoint values in the README 120ce1b and support for using both min- and max- in breakpoint() 9292467.

dotfiles

Our dotfiles are now more tmux compatible thanks to Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) who added tab-completion to ack using the tags file d16a4fe and Dan Croak (croaky) who enabled better pbcopy/pbpaste and RubyMotion compatibility by using reattach-to-user-namespace in 3ef63fe.

suspenders

Dan Croak (croaky) tightened up our suspenders by replacing the style guide (most of the README file, really) with links to guides c912961, ignoring the .env file 58c22ff, and alphabetizing the .gitignore file 884eb08.

high_voltage

In high_voltage, Mike Burns (mike-burns) extracted an overridable PageFinder class 8494e51 and removed the ActionMailer usage 6eee9b0. Odin Dutton (twe4ked) and Mike Burns added a config option to disable default routes 7570889.

fake_braintree

fake_braintree was bumped to version 0.2.1 by Dan Croak (croaky) 44f62b7.

bourbon

In bourbon Mike Burns (mike-burns) added command parsing using Thor ac3b318.

laptop

Our laptop script got the same reattach-to-user-namespace help from Dan Croak (croaky) as he added to the dotfiles 50a1a1e.

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factory_girl

Version 3.6.0. of factory_girl is hot and ready (919543e).

Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) added memoization to the names of attributes which adds a 33% speed increase on factories with overrides (acb2636). He also removed the unnecessary dependency on bluecloth (8d2b352) and added a respond_to_missing on NullObjects to make the release more compatible with Ruby 1.9 (e038bf8). Alex P (ifesdjeen) also added jRuby support, you can check the GETTING_STARTED page for set up information.

dotfiles

The space bar is now working as the leader key in our dotfiles thanks to sjas (sjas). Dan Croak (croaky) also changed the prompt to only list your current working directory instead of the full path (4208970).

paperclip

paperclip saw release 3.1.4 (70f0f1f) with an awesome commit message from Prem Sichanugrist (sikachu).

Matthew Schulkind (mschulkindi) added the ability to specify the format of the file and override the built in content-type detection (3103da5). Nick DeSteffen (nick-desteffen) and Yasith Fernando (thekindofme) found and fixed a few typos (ef4725f) (786a13f).  Sergio Cambra (scambra) fixed a syntax issue affecting users on ruby 1.8.7 (f7b76cd).

Thanks to Aditya Sanghi (asanghi), paperclip now features a URI adapter (5d06ad8).

trail-map

If you haven’t checked it out already, the trail-map is a great resource for anyone interested in improving their programming or design skills. This week Darren Woodley (manvsmachine) updated our unix map to include I/O redirection (a9279f8e).

Clearance

Our beloved Clearance had a 1.0.0.rc1 release this week (26860a1) and we would be thrilled to get feedback on it via Github issues or support@thoughtbot.com. This release features a multitude of changes including enforcing database constraints (fd6fbc0), removing unnecessary flash messages  (7184e7d) and a change to using BCrypt for encryption over SHA1 (be37c35) for improved security.

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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.

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clearance

Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw - that’s me!) cleaned up the clearance Rakefile a bit (4f016db).

factory_girl

Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) released version 3.1.0 of factory_girl (f1d3018). For the full list of changes, see the NEWS file. Josh updated a few dependencies too (20becc9, 29157d6). Kristian Mandrup (kristianmandrup) added the ability to alias sequences, just like you can alias factories (f387e38, 178a7ab). To see how to use it, see the documentation (f013335) he added for it. I love documentation pull requests.

factory_girl_rails

Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) bumped factory_girl_rails to version 3.1.0 (4259e4c) to match factory_girl’s new version.

paperclip

Prem Sichanugrist (sikachu) released version 3.0.2 (240147e) of paperclip. Unfortunately, the NEWS file hasn’t been updated for 3.0.2 yet. Prem removed an obsolete generator, then added a test for it (a2a4c7a, 03700c8). Preston Guillory (pguillory) fixed a typo (853595a). Typo fixes are always welcome! Michael Galero (mikong) pluralized the table name in the migration generator to follow Rails convention (28e2d1b). And Rafael Mendonça França (rafaelfranca) removed init.rb, since plugins will be deprecated in Rails 4.0 (ae7b7c5).

shoulda-matchers

Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw - me again!) finally released a new version of shoulda-matchers! Version 1.1.0 has a bunch of changes that you can see in the NEWS file. One of the noteworthy changes is that shoulda-matchers now depends on ActiveSupport >= 3.0.0 (c65e43a), meaning it’s Rails 3-only. We’ve been only testing against Rails 3 for a while, so this just makes it official. Gabe made a couple of documentation fixes (9203275, 8fcc3d2, a4edff0) and also cleaned up the code (5873502, 41088bc, 3039cc6, 820f216, 2e73b35, 457be62). Brendan Loudermilk (bloudermilk) added an accept_nested_attributes_for matcher (ee74222).

this-week-in-open-source

Finally, Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) fixed a little bug in this-week-in-open-source (which I used to generate this post!) to print missing directories before doing anything else (564c7c9).

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laptop

I was reminded that I’ve been missing out on our sweet laptop script, which is a program we maintain to get a Rails environment set up on OS X as quickly as possible. So over the past week, Antonio Salazar Cardozo (Shadowfiend) fixed our capitalization of Qt (b667280), Prem Sichanugrist (sikachu) fixed our capitalization of JavaScript (87fe88f), and Dan Croak (croaky) removed the deprecated Heroku Labs plugin (842cd0d) and gave instructions on installing the command-line XCode tools (a177cca).

suspenders

The suspenders gem, which has helped many people start a Rails app, now shows that the build is broken. Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) added that (76e42eb).

shoulda-matchers

The shoulda-matchers gem is a collection of RSpec matchers for various Rails things. Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) went to town on it this week, cleaning everything up in an effort to make it more pleasant to hack on (2b98e49, 09544fa, 7b3d6d0, 96df0b1, 36006d8, 4ff1344, 3b3181b, 4574f51, 1c517d2, bd52483, e70e1bf, 41bccc8). Having done that, he added a :primary option to the have_db_column matcher (68e65b2). Matthew Daubert (MDaubs) fixed a JRuby failure and also added support for Rails 3.0 (d85503f).

bourne

Due to my complaining last week, the bourne gem now has a NEWS file (8dfb077), thanks to Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw).

paperclip

So we have this gem named paperclip. You might have heard of it. This week, Tony Brewerio (tony-brewerio) fixed the :content_type validator (c4c22f8).

Prem Sichanugrist (sikachu) released version 3.0.1, which breaks backward compatibility (d61ddd5, 51bb0f9, 7088f5b, e1951ed, 9ea4a9b, 36d1289, 8390516, b3f9690, 8e80310, ee4107a, b3a63ed, 8a758c2, 84d2d08, fe706c6, b54904e, d3a7427, da5d716, ee42b19, e83f88f, 03f777f, 5232b19, 19aedbc).

Jon Yurek (jyurek) merged in something he has been working on: adapters for different types of I/O (6c5fe19, e10edcd, f4b6d48, 78cfebd, 89c8d11). Adding new file-like things is now easier, including URLs that act like files. Yeah, that’s right.

Jon is so going to write a blog post about this with more explanations, after he updates the README.

factory_girl

A bunch of fun commits to factory_girl this week. Chris Griego (cgriego) used pull requests as a forum to promote his ActiveAttr gem (81c9f2c and 4e2a672). Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) added a before_create callback (24d417d).

Vasiliy Ermolovich (nashby) used ActiveSupport for deprecation warnings (bca13f1 and 28e3c25) and also made use of the singleton_class method in Ruby 1.9 (08d01c1).

Mike Subelsky (subelsky) fixed a typo in the docs around the name FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods (266b1d6), Dan Croak (croaky) mentioned the supported Ruby versions in the README (bed50ec), Josh renamed Changelog to NEWS because that’s exactly what it is (4f5b775) and also renamed *rb files to *erb to handle yardoc better (a6ccbcb).

capybara-webkit

I totally dropped the ball on releasing a new version of capybara-webkit this week. Sorry about that! Joe Ferris (jferris), however, refactored some of the C++, which is very welcome (c2a2bd0 and 4531f65).

appraisal

Some news in our appraisal gem this week: Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) added a contribution guideline (fd05fdf), then osheroff fixed appraisal to handle weird filenames (1d4fa93, b21220a, and 75a4970).