Alex Chaffee's blog
So I didn't go to whatever was going on in Baltimore this week, but I did do a whole bunch of open source coding over the past week or two:
- TestFirst has a totally revamped design, including the downloadable (or cloneable) student exercises, and Learn JavaScript is now a first-class citizen
- Wrong's
expectalias now plays nicer with RSpec'sexpect - Rerun got a few new command-line options, including
--clearand--exitso you can now easily rerun regular scripts (likererun -cx rake test) when their files change - I submitted a patch to RubyGems to make the warningitis less ZOMG and more KTHXBY
- Fonzie is a bookmarklet that tells you what font you're looking at
- Twitter RSS is a bookmarklet that brings back the RSS link to the New Twitter UI
- Showoff works better with nested bullets and missing
showoff.jsonfiles -- so go nag Scott if you want him to accept my patches;-) - I also finally got my git pre-commit hook correctly stripping whitespace, and
A lot of these projects, especially TestFirst, are aching for improvement, so if you feel like contributing code or courseware, or even just feature requests, please get in touch!
Have you upgraded RubyGems lately? Is your console suddenly filled with warnings like this?
NOTE: Gem::Specification#default_executable= is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#default_executable= called from /Users/chaffee/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/specifications/thin-1.2.7.gemspec:10.
You may be showing signs of a new malady known as Warningitis! So far there is no cure, but doing the following will temporarily cure your symptoms:
gem update --system 1.7.2
Several experimental treatments are being hastily developed as well, but these have not yet been approved by the FDA. Check the "scary warnings are scary" bug thread for more details.
This has been a public health alert. Please do not panic. SARS masks and iodine pills are not recommended at this time.