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 [...]

The Bad News
Sending mouse events such as click and mouseover in JsUnit tests can be really hard.
More Bad News
Prototype doesn’t make it any easier. Sam Stephenson says:

We would very much like to support it in the future. It’s fairly complicated to implement native event firing across all supported browsers, so in 1.6.0, fire works [...]

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 [...]

I created a little wish list website called wshlst.com for my family to use. (Read more about it here.) I worked on it a little bit before Christmas last year, and a little bit again this year.
It’s been a lot of fun to write, and one reason is that the entire UI is written in [...]

I’ve got an HTML page that includes a bunch of Javascript files, which makes development easy but which hurts performance in production.
The standard solution is to concatenate all the Javascript files into one big file and then compress it. I wanted it to be automated of course, and I wanted to do it at deploy-time, [...]

I often want to add a bunch of styles to an element, so I wrote a simple stylize method.

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 was looking around for a good website monitoring service or script, and I found Montastic which is a free website monitoring service.