Standup 02/22/2007

Interesting Things

If you are using named parameters, watch out! A routes-named-parameters bug bit us. It’s fixed in Edge Rails but not in a released version of Rails.
… And as a public service announcement, Rails’ routing was rewritten for version 1.2. If you are experiencing weird routing behavior, check the bug list.
False alarm! The REGEX bug we mentioned the the last standup meeting… our fault.
Let’s say you have the desperate need to generate a drop-shadow for an image, or any other sort of shadow (haven’t we all?). Check out Rmagick’s Image::shadow() method, which can do it for you. Very cool stuff!
More svn:externals problems. I won’t get into the gory details, but if are changing or removing a svn:externals property on a directory, your best bet is to delete that portion of the directory tree and get a fresh version from SVN. You’ll avoid most problems.
One project is using the Rails Simple Captcha plugin with success, and even has a successful Selenium testing strategy.
Watch out for this appable_plugins bug ActiveRecord models in your plugin do not reload when your environment sets config.cache_classes = true. End result: you might get “method missing” errors in your application for methods that the plugin’s model declares. Ouch. Details available upon request.

Doh! Somehow we broke ruby script/generate migration MyMigration. I suppose we should fix that.