The Big Rewrite is Here

When I first started this blog, it was my very first Rails project. I was young. I was naive. I didn't do automated testing.

Fast forward back to September, and I wanted to start adding some new features. I wanted to do it right though, with tests, and all. To my dismay, I found the way I had implemented things weren't so easy to test.

This, along with Rails 2.0 coming along, and some other new libraries/plugins I wanted to learn, led me to starting a complete rewrite.

So, here's a laundry list of what I've been using so far:

I think I'm mostly feature complete, but the most significant missing piece is...

Comments! I mostly need to find a good way of spam filtering. The original version was using simple_captcha, but I've been noticing spam has still been getting through. I'm considering trying akismet, which does have a few Rails plugins.

But yeah, that's it for now. I hope to pump out a few posts about this new stuff I'm using.

rails rspec acts_as_taggable_on_steroids vlad piston ultraviolet hpricot
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piston and git for the win

Piston has had support for git (both importing from, and into) for a little over a month.

Before that, I felt like developing a rails app in git was a bit painful. Considering most plugins are kept in subversion, you're only real option is using svn export to install plugins, and check that into git. There was braid, but I really didn't have any luck with it.

But, like I said, it's all good now. It hasn't been officially released (ie as gems), but you can build and install it yourself easily enough.

$ git clone git://github.com/francois/piston.git
$ sudo gem install -y main open4 log4r
$ cd piston
$ sudo rake install_gem

Pretty straight forward to use.

$ cd vendor/plugins
$ piston import git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git
INFO main: Guessing the repository type
INFO main: Guessing the working copy type
INFO main: Checking out the repository
INFO main: Copying from Piston::Revision(git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git@42083ffa31e0a9792472780854ddd81bcc9b2f61)
INFO main: Checked out "git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git" 42083ff to "restful-authentication"

And since it's since it's being developed in a git repository, and on GitHub, it's extremely easy to start contributing.

I mean, if I can contribute something, I'm sure you can pull it off too :)

git ruby rails piston
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