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New rake and cap bash-completion scripts

As you all know, hackers are lazy. They are so lazy, that they work today to spare some work tomorrow. And they do this every day.

I’m shure, there are working bash completion scripts for rake and cap, but the ones I downloaded didn’t work that well.

So today I spend some hours hacking new completion scripts to save me (and you) some seconds of typing tomorrow. And the day after. It sums up, you know? At least in theory.

So without further fuzz, here you are: http://github.com/niko/rake_and_cap_completion/tree/master

Have fun!

yours truly, niko

ARMIT - Jumping the git train

I want to be on it. So I release armit to the world – even before its all mature (the way we like our beer). What’s armit, you say? Well, Armit is ‘ActiveRecord Multiple InheriTance’. Ok, that’s contrived you say, right. But it rings well.

With armit you can finally do all that crazy table stuff you’ve always wanted to. I promise to write more about it here – and to make a formal release once it is ready. Birdie, fly:

http://github.com/kschiess/armit/tree/master
git://github.com/kschiess/armit.git

Meanwhile, back at the ranch … that new kid git really rocks me off of my feet. And github looks really promising – so promising in fact that we might host more projects there in the future (not affiliated). Do give it a whirl!

Edit: Now that I read through it, that post reads like the spam I am getting. The same giddy excitement over not much. That’s a mood I am in often, I call it taking pleasure in living.

yours truly, kaspar

eliminate, stamp out and abolish redundancy - to hell with spec/mocks

We firmly believe a testing framework should not also bring a mocking framework along. And we choose flexmock over the alternatives. Also – that choice was made before switching to rspec, so we weren’t at all happy with spec/mocks and flexmock battling themselves in our code.

The battle was inevitable, since both offer you convenience methods like

object.should_receive(:message)

Are you sure which framework you use in your rails specs? Really? Read on.

Ripping out spec/mocks

So you rip it out, right? No. Even though rspec allows you to configure mocking, rspec_on_rails will load and use the spec/mocks framework.

We selfishly rewrote rspec_on_rails into rspec_flexmock_on_rails. Branching is not always a good idea, but this time – it might just solve things for some people, that’s why we put our code in public under the same license that rspec is. Here goes:

http://swissrb.rubyforge.org/svn/rspec_flexmock_on_rails/

Please leave us a comment – if enough people start using this, we might be tempted to patch…

yours truly, kaspar

ScopedProxy 1.0

We’re proud to announce our first software release: Scoped Proxy. Here’s what it does:

require 'scoped_proxy'

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  scoped_proxy :role do |role|
    {
      :find => { :conditions => ['role = ?', role] }
    }
  end
  scoped_proxy :deleted, :find => {
    :conditions => 'deleted_at is not null'
  }
end

admins = User.role('admin')
admins.count              # => 12
admins.find(:all)         # => [ ... ]

User.deleted.count        # => a number

Those of you who’ve read our old blog (neotrivium.com) will know the scoped proxy as a single file drop in plugin. On public demand I’ve gem-ified it. To install, simply type:

sudo gem install ScopedProxy

Easy as that. Please let me know what you think!

(Update: Here’s the link to our rubyforge project: swissrb)

yours truly, kaspar