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.

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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).

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bourne

Version 1.1.2 of bourne is out (fba748b), without a NEWS file describing the changes! However, the history indicates that it is compatible with a more recent version of mocha and it presents better error messages now.

bourbon

We’re trying out version 2.0.0, release candidate 1, of bourbon (0ec0115). So please, try it out and let us know what’s broken.

Out of nowhere, Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) changed the formatting of something (7ec8959).

But Phil LaPier (plapier) removed animation-basic (316f2a7), cleaned up the default padding for buttons (2a46225), changed the radial-gradient in a way I don’t totally understand (94506ea), added some shorthands for transition (3342577), removed the position mixin (4621347), and updated the README (5f1176d and f5cdfad).

factory_girl

Version 3.0.0 of factory_girl is out: read the blog post to know more. In summary: goodbye five-year-old Ruby 1.8, goodbye two-year-old Rails 2, goodbye four-year-old FactoryGirl syntax!

suspenders

Minor cleanups to suspenders this week: Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) fixed some markdown (107b103) and Andy Waite (andyw8) removed some annoying whitespace probably left by someone using TextMate (32104f9) and noted the fact that you must be running Postgres while suspending (de20630).

paul_revere

In paul_revere news this week, Cameron Desautels (camdez) pointed out that controller helpers need to use the helper class method (3b74d84).

shoulda

The shoulda gem got taken care of by Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) this week: the Rails test helpers use the installed shoulda-matchers and shoulda-context gems instead of the GitHub ones (6f3b7b4); the dependencies are updated to more recent versions, and the tests require the user of bundler now (34d9f4a); the Rakefile doesn’t present a clobber action, whatever that did (058724b); and the contribution guidelines now reflect the fact that we’ve wanted pull requests for the past three years (f75da74).

shoulda-matchers

This week, Gabe decided to take all pull requests on shoulda-matchers over the past few…years. Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) also did a bunch of cleanup and maintainance (c10cf34, 31b140f, c27de41, 7d70805, 7950d00, 3d6b8a8, ff0d364, ca6d428, ba78ed0, 8724cd2, c493c40, f841805, 0746b79, 963a293, 65d6d1c, afaf72b, and 76127ea).

Norway’s own Håkon Lerring (Hakon) added as_instance_of to the serialize matcher (9b5e972, 3b891cf, and d9906d8). Hey Håkon, I’m moving to your neighboring country soon!

Matthew Daubert (MDaubs) added an odd query_the_database matcher, which could be useful for making sure a n+1 is good and dead (0ecb774, 93cd34e, 56de191, 8e7fbc5, 558d1df, and 00a9a68).

Frank Luithle (sigi) extended the allow_value matcher to handle multiple values (cab62a1, c86d8e2, and 026927b).

Luca Guidi (jodosha) updated our dependencies. Sweet. (1956736)

And last but not least, Mike Bloy (bloy) extended the association matchers to understand inverse relations and to check the correct class (a4cb684, 5c173bf, and c863f7e).

capybara-webkit

The capybara-webkit gem got a fix for the RSpec matcher from Chris Nicola (lucisferre), possibly due to an API change elsewhere (8fb7ccd); Will Ryan added keyCode and which to the keypress, keydown, and keyup triggers (c6103e7 and fb97fe8); and Joe Ferris (jferris) refactored everything (1ed54b1, 3ebe0fa, 67d5e3d, 354180a, 85dcc72, and 5b57eee), plus stopped clearing the page on the URL about:blank (b3b1adf).

dotfiles

A bug fix to dotfiles this week as Claudio Ortolina (cloud8421) changed the .vimrc to load the local configs from the homedir instead of just about anywhere (9dc7f9c).

appraisal

A feature in appraisal this week: Gregory Ostermayr (gregors) exposed the bundle command that Appraisal uses to install the Gemfile-specific gems (6b41d07 and 8023273). Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) stopped the tests from loading shoulda; instead it loads rake, which is already installed (beaee3b).

fake_braintree

The contribution guidelines were written for fake_braintree by Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw), which are mostly the same as our others (bd5220a). Namely, we love tests and pull requests.

paperclip

Mostly quiet on the paperclip front, except Dmitry Polushkin (dmitry) snuck a backward-incompatible change into the generated migration (b7bfdec).

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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).