Comments for Robin Spainhour

Comment on Git your configs backed up by robin

robin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:18:16 +0000

No, I haven’t considered using Mercurial. The choice of git was the most convenient for me as I use it daily.

When developing, I like the how easy it is to change the history when using git. But those features have no bearing in this context. I’m sure Mercurial would do equally well.

Comment on Git your configs backed up by Björn Wennerström

Björn Wennerström — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:25:14 +0000

Did you consider using Mercurial? If so, may I ask why you chose git?

Comment on Selenium on Rails DSL by Duncan Bayne

Duncan Bayne — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:51:04 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion - unfortunately this didn’t work for me (Rails 2.2.2, Ruby 1.8.7, S-o-R stable as at 16/04/2009, Ubuntu 8.10 on Mac Pro) without one tweak. I ended up having to explicitly extend the Evaluator class:

class SeleniumOnRails::RSelenese::Evaluator
class_eval do
include Selenium::DSL
end
end

Comment on Using ActiveRecord with forms but without a table by robin

robin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:39:21 +0000

@Shak
To be honest, a columnless model never struck my mind but I’m sure there are valid cases for this.

If you haven’t already, feel free to fork the git repo and implement this feature.

Comment on Using ActiveRecord with forms but without a table by Shak

Shak — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:27:09 +0000

I noticed that the tableless method absolutely requires at least one column to be defined when it’s called. This is okay for normal cases but there are times when I wish to declare a model tableless and add columns using the column method.

It’s easy enough to omit the check for no columns defined, I was just wondering why it’s in there in the first place. Surely the vacuous case of a columnless tableless model should be supported?

Comment on Using ActiveRecord with forms but without a table by Shak

Shak — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:49:41 +0000

Actually scrap that; it seems that the plugin was installed totally incorrectly. I’ve got files from other plugins! Looking into it now.

Comment on Using ActiveRecord with forms but without a table by Shak

Shak — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:35:37 +0000

My server doesn’t start - it’s complaining about something called Restflection. I’ve tried installing a plugin with the same name, but ART seems to look in its lib directory for it.

Any solutions for this? I’m running 2.2.2 btw.

Comment on Using rspec-rails during gem development by robin

robin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:05:49 +0000

@Todd Tyree
Thanks for pointing this out.
From your stack trace I see that my rspec and rspec-rails gem versions differ from yours. I was on 1.1.11 and both ‘rake spec’ and ’spec ./spec’ could be used to run the specs.
When upgrading my rspec and rspec-rails gems to 1.1.12 I get the same stack trace as you do.

I will look into this and post back when done.

/Robin

Comment on Using rspec-rails during gem development by Todd Tyree

Todd Tyree — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:10:28 +0000

Hi Robin,

Just wondering how you’re running this? I tried to adapt it to spec my cookieless_sessions gem to no avail, then I cloned yours and tried it with the same results. Here’s a link to a gist with the stack trace:

http://gist.github.com/59937

I get the same dump regardless of whether I run ‘rake spec’ or run it from the TextMate rspec bundle.

Comment on Using ActiveRecord with forms but without a table by robin

robin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:41:52 +0000

@Simon

Simon,
I’m afraid this is not possible with this plugin.

I agree that this would be a nice feature to have and I’m surprised I haven’t stumbled on this need myself.
Please keep me posted if you find something with this functionality. I’ll update this blog post if I stumble onto something, or find a way to implement it.