Erik A. Hanson's Weblog

A while ago, I wrote about a Ruby script to concatenate and compress Javascript files for my wshlst application. I’ve changed things around a bit since that article, so I thought it was time for an update.
Background
wshlst uses a lot of Javascript. When developing, I want to have all of my JS files listed in [...]

For my wshlst.com project, I needed to show when each item or comment was created or edited. My initial implementation was to just show the time and date of the change, but people who aren’t in the same time zone as my server didn’t like the fact that it showed a different time zone.
I contemplated [...]

When installing Capistrano, you should install the termios gem so that your password isn’t echoed when you type it. Easier said than done.

I had a little trouble today with join tables that contain attributes.

I’m working on a Ruby project using Eclipse and RDT. RDT provides a couple useful features, including support for running unit tests with Test::Unit. Unfortunately, it’s pretty primitive at the moment. One big problem is that it can’t run all your tests. So we wrote a test suite class that runs all tests and can be run from Test::Unit:.

I had a hell of a time getting Ruby on Rails to work on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Here’s what ended up working for me.