Automerging now in rake_commit_tasks
The rake_commit_tasks plugin now supports automatically merging changes from branch to trunk. I describe the feature and the use case at Automatically merge ...
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Flight delays application overhaul
In Flight delay information for United flights, I talked about an application I wrote to show United flight delays over time. I have now completely rewritten...
Strange behavior with define_method and the wrong number of arguments
I noticed the other day that methods defined using define_method have very strange behavior when given the wrong number of arguments. For example, here is a ...
Mephisto with Phusion Passenger
I recently upgraded my blogging software, Mephisto, from 0.7.3 to 0.8.1. One thing I noticed is that they moved the cached files from public to a cache subfo...
Deploying trunk or tags with capistrano
On my current project, we use capistrano for all of our deployments. In the simplest case, you tell capistrano the URL of your repository, and then you deplo...