In my last post, I made a quick note about how the FriendlyORM had some issues in Postgres. I made a few quick hacks (all in the interest of finishing this up and launching it yesterday). A few hours later, James Golick managed to fix the issues in a special postgres branch.

Lots of great content coming out of the community in the past month. Below you’ll find some of the most useful tutorials and libraries I’ve found over the past few weeks. These stories came directly from the Ruby5 podcast, which covers news from the Ruby and Rails community twice weekly.

Improving your Rails code

git_remote_branch 0.2.6 is out!

I’ve just released a new and improved version of git_remote_branch. Code named 0.2.6!

Ok, I admit. I haven’t really begun using code names.

I’m promoting the project from a pre-alpha to an alpha release. There’s still a lot to do, but the stability and “testedness” have improved greatly. Following are both sides of the maturity story.

A wise man once suggested that one of the steps in teaching yourself programming involved working with people better than you. (See
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years)

James Golick wrote a
very good article about testing a while ago. In it he dissects (and refutes) the too often heard arguments where people say they don’t write automated tests because they don’t have the time.