Ardekantur

Computer Science, Ruby, and Software Engineering.

Category: Observations

Features Gist Still Needs

Tagging Most Popular / Most Forked Gists

If these both existed, it would be a cinch to use Gist as the de facto repository for all the Rails Templates we’ll start seeing when 2.3 gets released for reals.

Sinatra 0.9 and Pre-RSpec Modifications

I have no idea if this is the right way to do this, but it certainly works. Say you’re working in Sinatra 0.9, and have an application that subclasses Sinatra::Base. Call it AwesomeApp. What if you want to fiddle around with it — in my case, set application options — before RSpec starts running with [...]

Spaces Application Assignments are too Literal

Here was my original configuration. Two columns of spaces, three rows. Note the application assignments. I’ve asked Mail.app to stay on Space 5.

This is my new configuration. Three by three spaces. The application assignments haven’t changed, but they’ve changed in spirit. Where I was consigning Mail.app to the bottom left corner, it now sits right [...]

Looks Like Spammers Don’t Write Tests

Nicked from a spam harvest on my blog.

Bizarre Memetic Coincidences in Advertising

Just a bizarre aesthetic simularity I noticed.