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Firebrigade: automated, sandboxed testing of RubyGems packages by other developers

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
Firebrigade tests every gem ever made on every platform under the sun and summarizes the results, enabling developers to see how their packages perform...

FastRI 0.3.0: standalone mode (DRb not needed), more search methods, extended class info...

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
FastRI is an alternative to the "ri" tool, used to browse RDoc/RI Ruby API documentation. As of 0.3.0, FastRI can operate in standalone mode (without using...

rcodetools 0.5.0: additional code completion info, path settings

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
rcodetools is a collection of Ruby code manipulation tools. Currently, rcodetools comprises: xmpfilter: automagic Test::Unit assertions/RSpec expectations...

Railisms (core/stdlib extensions in Ruby on Rails)

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
If you've ever written a piece of code that worked fine in a Rails app but bombed elsewhere, you've probably been relying on a Railism unknowingly. I used...

Related document discovery, without algebra

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
You have heard about latent semantic analysis (if you haven't, take a look at this nice article on a SVD recommendation system written in 50 lines of Ruby...

URL rewriting with WEBrick

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
WEBrick isn't as fashionable as it once was, but it's still invaluable for development and testing. I recently needed it to handle rewrite rules, and google...

Ruby rewrites my CSS, eigenclass.org repainted (think of the children and their eyes)

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
_why has repainted eigenclass.org, and made me realize that eigenclass' design can be tiring to the eye if you've not set your monitor to fairly low brightness...

Doing some n-gram analysis over Ruby's docs

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
The first attempts to optimize my pure-Ruby, 200LoC full-text search engine based on suffix arrays (which evolved into the in-progress FTSearch) led me...

Running your tests automatically with autotest wmii, emacs and ratpoison

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
Seeing the bar turn green is great for the morale; this is one of the several benefits of writing tests (even if you don't go fully TDD). Running testsmanually...

Ruby's branching plan, a pic worth more than a ML thread (now with mput's explanation)

over 3 years ago by Mauricio Fernandez on Eigenclass.
I have translated mput's explanation (see below) Great, mput (URABE Shyouhei) just saved a slice of everybody's time by releasing this: (lower, left-hand...