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Comment on So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by [digital:meditation] » Columba: How to revive an open-source project?

[digital:meditation] » Columba: How to revive an open-source project? — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:10:10 +0000

[...] two years ago, maintainers of the Columba Mail mail client announced the end of their project due to obvious reasons (lack of time, being busy in “real life). Looking at some screenshots [...]

Comment on jwz threading on GitHub by fdietz

fdietz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:53:09 +0000

Hy Micah!

and thanks for looking into it! I’m actually in the process of uploading a gem for it this week. So, it will be super easy for you to integrate into your project.

Cheers,
-Frederik

Comment on jwz threading on GitHub by Micah

Micah — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:52:28 +0000

Hey,

I just saw your jwz implementation on GitHub. I’m hoping to add mailing list functionality to my website, and I think your library could be a big help.

I just wanted to thank you for putting it out there

Comment on Migrations and Foreign Key Handling by Marcello Nuccio

Marcello Nuccio — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:10:13 +0000

Do search “foreign” on github.com for a list of useful plugins.
http://github.com/search?q=foreign

Comment on Symbol#to_proc – what? by Symbol#to_proc and Ruby’s Open Classes « Frederik’s Weblog

Symbol#to_proc and Ruby’s Open Classes « Frederik’s Weblog — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:03:57 +0000

[...] and Ruby’s Open Classes 21Aug08 Just saw an article related to my last post about Symbol#to_proc. Very interesting read! And even more fun is this article which explains the [...]

Comment on Symbol#to_proc – what? by fdietz

fdietz — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:03:57 +0000

Hi Brad,

it seems generally more difficult in a dynamic languages like Ruby to figure out how things work. Meta-programming, reflection, coding by convention, etc. just means that one has to simply document things explicitly. So, I haven’t found a good way yet to find documentation for particular things and instead focused on reading a lot of books about Ruby in general and Ruby on Rails in particular. I’m wondering how we could improve such a situation, for example: how should we document “method_missing” inner workings with rdoc? If would be cool to find a way to formalize this a bit and come up with tooling support. Something like annotations in rdoc pointing to documentation would already be helpful, but I haven’t really thought about it yet. Should probably write a blog entry on this some time.

Really like your book, keep up the good work!

Cheers,
-Frederik

Comment on Symbol#to_proc – what? by Brad Ediger

Brad Ediger — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:15:57 +0000

Hi Frederik,
I’m sort of in agreement with you that this little trick can decrease readability of code, depending on context. Symbol#to_proc is fairly idiomatic in Rails now, having been part of ActiveSupport for quite some time. It’s still something one has to learn as part of one’s Ruby “dialect”. And more often than not, I choose to explicitly write my procs out in Ruby code (outside of Rails), rather than importing Symbol#to_proc. The to_proc hack is also slower (sometimes substantially slower) in Ruby 1.8 / ActiveSupport because of the overhead of building the Proc.

Incidentally, Ruby 1.9 includes Symbol#to_proc as part of the core language.

Regards,
Brad

Comment on EasyMock IllegalStateException by Ferry

Ferry — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:22:47 +0000

I have an array of object argument.
eg:
Service class with method doSomething(Object[]{});

I can easily make the mock expectation:
service.doSomething(aryEq(new Object[]{“has to know the value”}));

but I’m in the situation that I don’t know the value of the object array.
Is there a way ? since it will raise IllegalStateException if I set like : service.doSomething(aryEq(new Object[]{isA(String.class)});

Thanks

Comment on So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Welcome « waffel’s Weblog

Welcome « waffel’s Weblog — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:01:07 +0000

[...] Today I have recieved bad new from the columba project. Our maintainer leaves the project. You can read his blog here. [...]

Comment on Addicted to Questionable Content web comic by MOBY

MOBY — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:16:08 +0000

Bookmarks…

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