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If you are using capybara-webkit gem that you should install QT 4.7+, if you need to use pushState/replaceState. Also defining those functions with mock implementations is another good solution.
The gem term-ansicolor has been removed from the heroku gem. It is still a dependency of foreman which is used by the lastest Heroku stack. The license on gem term-ansicolor is gplv2.
Guard with spork takes away a lot of the pain of using spork. Use the gem guard-spork which takes care of building you a sample guardfile. It takes care of restarting the appropriate framework you have in use be it test unit, rspec or cucumber.
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- If you are having trouble with find and files with textmate or ackmate you might want to add an exlcusion for "solrdata" in textmate folder references exclusion list. Apparently this is fixed in an undocumented version of ackmate on github.
- Peter Cooper and Jason Siefer have a new Javascript podcast, subscribe today!
We're looking for more information about Taste or other similar kinds of suggestion engines. What kind of experiences have people had integrating these tools into Rails applications. Are there other useful engines worth looking at?
Direct uploads to Amazon S3 service can be serviced by EC2 servers; however, there might be more direct ways of doings this with S3.
Newer versions of RubyMine have been reported having problems running the gem version of rspec but a solutions has been found. The problem comes from the way gems are specified in RubyMine. You need to add the rspec gem you are using to the Project Structure >> Ruby SDK and Gems.
Using Desert and exception notifier can cause some slow startup times. If you are seeing this problem try moving exception notifier's sender_address inside your environment's post-load block.
There is a firebug that works with Firefox 3, it can be found at GetFirebug.com. The current beta version 1.1 appears to fix a problem that Firebug was having with inspecting anchor elements.
Also, there is a google code project ie7-js. It is a Javascript library that attempts to make IE7 behave more like a standards-compliant browser. It includes a limited PNG transparency fix. It also gives you Pseudo-element like :before and :after.
Combining this with yui and IE7 gets a lot closer to behaving as you might expect!