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Re: Why Rails Developers are at such peace with the world.

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Re: acts-as-taggable-on and space delimited tag lists | Pete On Rails

Kathy — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 12:04:40 -0000

Thank you! This was very helpful.

Re: Goodbye TextMate | Pete On Rails

peteonrails — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:28:11 -0000

Hi Kevin. This is a really really old article. Today, I use Sublime Text on my linux machine. Give it a go!

Re: Goodbye TextMate | Pete On Rails

Kevin — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:33:29 -0000

netbeans cause my box overheating (7.3.1) , now going to find the alternatives... (Ubuntu 10.10)

Re: Goodbye TextMate | Pete On Rails

buzz off Qwe — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:42:31 -0000

Hey i came across your blog via google, just wanted to say thanks for contributing content to the internet in general & that guy Qwe Qwe can fuck right off. Cheers!

Re: Goodbye TextMate | Pete On Rails

peteonrails — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:05:19 -0000

It's a pretty old article, so I'd argue that it's no longer timely. However, the folks who read my RSS feed were interested at the time. I'm sorry that you didn't like the article.

In the future, please remember Rule #1: Don't Be A Jerk.

Thanks,

--Pete

Re: Goodbye TextMate | Pete On Rails

Qwe Qwe — Fri, 31 May 2013 21:49:31 -0000

Really, who the fuck cares?

Re: Goodbye TextMate

Pete Jackson — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:15:07 -0000

An excellent editor. Thanks!

Re: Goodbye TextMate

Marnen Laibow-Koser — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:23:02 -0000

Why aren't you just using FileMerge (part of the Mac OS developer tools) for diffs? It even integrates with Git.

Re: Goodbye TextMate

Marnen Laibow-Koser — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:47:52 -0000

Redcar is now my preferred Rails editor. (I like NetBeans for other things, but it's not at all good for Rails -- Rails really doesn't benefit from an IDE.)

Re: Why Rails Developers are at such peace with the world.

Paul — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:02:02 -0000

ignorance is bliss...that's why

Re: acts-as-taggable-on and space delimited tag lists

Vadim — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:47:13 -0000

Pete, thanks.
Working well!

Re: acts-as-taggable-on and space delimited tag lists

Bparanj — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:12:51 -0000

How do you handle tags that has multiple words?

Re: Oracle Spatial support in spatial_adapter for ActiveRecord

M Khalifeh — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:12:58 -0000

Hello and thanks for your effort to bring Oracle spatial into Rails.
In my new project, i have to use Oracle spatial+Rails, so we are in the same boat :)
do you still work on this adapter? do you need some help doing so?

Re: The Revenge of Inigo Montoya

peteonrails — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:57:42 -0000

I don't usually feed the trolls Derek, especially not on something I
wrote over a year ago. But in this case, I think a response is
warranted.

You're conflating a bunch of issues in your argument, but here's my best go:

1. Yes, I read all of the code behind ci_auth. The :false symbol may not
have been evaluated anywhere for its truthiness in the library itself,
but I assure you, it caused a bug that I spent a long time tracking
down.

2. Yes. I understood the requirements of authentication at said company.
I stand by my assertion that rolling your own security / authentication
library was a mistake.

3. There's a reason there are no tests in The Mod. You'll have to ask
David why, though. I'm really sorry that you're stuck maintaining that
code base for more reasons than the fact that it's got poor unit test
coverage.

In my original post, Derek, I didn't rag on your code. I didn't mention
your name, your employer, the project in question, or even say it was a
huge steaming pile of shit. If you think The Mod codebase sucks, then
you should make the case to your bosses for a rewrite, rather than rag
on me for making the best of a shitty situation with your stakeholders.

Just don't put "if case == :false" in there anywhere and I'll be happy.

Re: The Revenge of Inigo Montoya

derekharmel — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:56:25 -0000

Yes, :false was a poor choice for a symbol, but if you actually checked the codebase further than just that one line you would've seen that it's never evaluated anywhere for its truthiness.

Regarding point #3, no we couldn't have "simply" used RESTful Authentication or Authlogic. The latter didn't even exist at the time. I don't know how you can possibly make the assertion that you did. Do you fully understand the requirements of authentication at said company? No, you clearly don't/didn't when you wrote this.

Regarding point #4, I don't know whether to laugh or be outraged as the project mentioned above has almost no test coverage and the tests that did exist didn't even run when you were done with the project.

Before you rag on someone else's code and tell them they need tests, make sure that what you wrote for them wasn't a huge steaming pile of untested shit.

Re: Goodbye TextMate

$13092923 — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:22:22 -0000

Try Sublime Text 2.

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tedsan — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:53:26 -0000

I think Stallman's head would explode if he saw this one...

Re: Goodbye TextMate

Thinkyhead — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:52:05 -0000

Interesting how few developers (here at least) seem to be using BBEdit for day-to-day work, preferring TextMate. I'm one of them, but I keep BBEdit around and open usually for things like merging Diffs, which it manages very well. And I suppose I like the open bundle nature of TextMate. I wrote a bundle for Torque 2D scripting in a really short time. No doubt this is quick to do in Emacs too. I also like that TextMate does time-saving auto-completion like closing braces, also applied around the current selection, and in HTML mode, has shortcuts for tag wrapping. And I guess I like the default light-on-dark color scheme better in TextMate. It does code folding better too.

As an aside, I think XCode would be a great starting point as a web development editor. Its code-folding and block highlighting is the best around. It might be worth exploring, as it's a strong environment for multi-language projects, and each "build" need only be a deployment script. But then, TextMate does have plugins to invoke compilers and such so... it's a toss-up if you're not into XCode. But the proof is in the pudding.

But why do you think so many developers prefer TextMate to BBEdit? Is BareBones missing an opportunity here?

Re: Goodbye TextMate

Thinkyhead — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:37:24 -0000

Maybe it's trying to do too much, but Coda by Panic, Inc. is an interesting project with a very responsive developer team.

Re: Goodbye TextMate

Thinkyhead — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:35:24 -0000

TextMate also, following the Mac convention used in other apps like TextEdit and BBEdit. Hold down the Option/Alt key and the cursor changes to a crosshair. You can then select a rectangular region, then cut or copy.

Re: Goodbye TextMate

Qwe — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:26:35 -0000

Too bad Netbeans has dropped support for Ruby as of v7.

Re: Goodbye TextMate

adrianoconnor — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:10:19 -0000

Interesting -- I haven't used Redcar before. I'm going to give a good trial starting right now :) I already use JRuby for my Windows Ruby work, so hopefully it'll be a nice fit.

Re: Goodbye TextMate

peteonrails — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:11:25 -0000

It's not THAT outrageous. :)

Re: Goodbye TextMate

peteonrails — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:11:04 -0000

No doubt! I ended up using RedCar. I found it to be a nice happy medium.