Category Archives: Software Tweaking

Getting the most out of the software you use with small, useful changes.

§ Textmate, RSpec, and Pending Tasks

Do you use this syntax in your RSpec files to designate pending tasks?

it "should do something"

Do you hate that the RSpec TextMate bundle borks on it and can’t find a symbol for it? You’re in luck! Grab my fork of David Chelimsky’s rspec-tmbundle and woe no more!

The best part is that pending tasks [...]

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§ Fixing Slideshow (S9) and Syntax Highlighting within Markdown

In another attempt to fill a blog entry title with as many buzzwords as I can, this diff can be applied to the code in your Slide Show library in order to take the suggestion of a previous developer and use CGI to unescape the HTML that comes back from syntax highlighting code, as opposed [...]

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§ Generating Multiple RSpec Files from a Design Document

A small Rakefile task to automagically generate your spec files from a specially formatted design document of specifications.

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§ rest-client and SSL Hackery

I’ve forked Adam Wiggins’ wonderful project rest-client and added a horrible hack for SSL support. To wit, adding a header :ssl with any non-nil value in a request will add SSL authentication. Fo’ example:

a = RestClient::Resource.new ‘https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/update’, ‘username’, ‘password’ a.get :user_agent => ‘random_service/1.0.0′, :ssl => true   # => "<?xml version=’1.0′ standalone=’yes’?>\n<update time=\"2008-03-24T13:11:50Z\"/>\n"

The catch? It breaks a few [...]

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§ Custom Rails Validations

I’ve been having some trouble getting custom rails validations to work after reading Peter Marklund’s post on the topic. I finally have a configuration that works, and I’m posting it up here because

I’ve read some random posts and threads about problems with this, and Because randomly this configuration seems to stop working for me.

So here [...]

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