Interesting Things

• Teaser: Selenium for Flash! We’ve developed a Selenium-like framework for Flash. It’s pre-alpha, and needs to be extracted from it’s current home inside a project. Are you interested in a Selenium-like framework for Flash, or have you written one yourself? Let us know!

• STI-weirdness. Rails surprise of the day: given a query of a has_many :photos where Photos has STI subclasses (got that?) Rails will build a SQL query that includes the subclass types of Photo, which you might not want:

  foo.photos.find_by_type("Photo")
  # query will have "... WHERE type IN ('Photo', 'OriginalPhoto', 'ThumbnailPhoto')"
  

• It appears that the retardase_inhibitor might not work with Rails 2.1.X due to fixes in ActionMailer.

• JetBrains has been hard at work: they have released both a new Ruby plugin for IntelliJ, and a ruby-specific IDE (based on IntelliJ) named RubyMine.

• Check out Pivot Jonathan’s wife’s art exhibit at Artist-Xchange Gallery in San Francisco, Friday 11/7 from 7-10pm:

  
  3169 16th Street
  San Francisco
  CA 94103

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“I want to create a custom launcher for Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 with different profiles. Perhaps the real question is how do we create a custom version of a Mac application launcher, passing in the arguments we need?”

… without having to invoke it on the command line every time.

“We’re trying to delete cookies in our Controller, but they keep appearing in the headers anyway.”

Suggestion: make sure you are specifying your URL paths and domains correctly.

“Why won’t our CSS and other assets load the first time when accessing an SSL-protected domain on Engine Yard?”

It’s most likely not Engine Yard or Firefox 3′s fault. More research needed.