Nathan Verni’s Blog

The albums I was the most into in 2008 that may or may not have come out in 2008.

1. Bonnie Prince Billie - Lie Down In The Light
2. Frightened Rabbits - The Midnight Organ Fight
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs <– Red River Shore, best song ever
5. Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
6. Pavement - Brighten The Corners

Last.FM Top artists:

1. Brian Eno
2. Guided By Voices
3. Bob Dylan
4. Pavement
5. Phish (sic)

As a programmer that came to Ruby via Rails I find myself confused and intrigued by python.  I wasn’t instantly sold on ruby’s syntax but I find it much much better than Python.  That could also be because ruby was the catalyst for a shift to open-source, unix, gnu technologies, perhaps everything after that will be viewed as a fake ruby.  But django is intriuiging.  Who is using it? what are the big sites on Django?

http://amigoingasthejokerforhalloween.com/

I’ve been getting more into using shoulda for BDD rather than rspec.  I updated the rails boilerplate shell script to install should rather than rspec.  You can still uncomment the rspec stuff if you want it.

http://github.com/npverni/rails-boilerplate-script/tree/master

The Django framework has just released version 1.0 after 3 years of measured growth and enhancements. Congrats to the Django/Python community.

Here’s a quick script that I use to get a boilerplate Rails application setup.

Note: the touch commands won’t work on windows
Update: Check it out at github http://github.com/npverni/rails-boilerplate-script/

#restful-authentication
./script/plugin install git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git
./script/generate authenticated user sessions

#jRails
./script/plugin install git://github.com/aaronchi/jrails.git  

#rspec
cd vendor/plugins
git clone git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git
git clone git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git
cd rspec
git checkout 1.1.4
cd ../rspec-rails
git checkout 1.1.4
cd ..
rm -rf rspec/.git
rm -rf rspec-rails/.git
cd ../../

#create the databases
rake db:create:all
rake db:migrate

#remove the index.html, create a default home controller, create placeholder application.html.erb layout and stylesheets
mv public/index.html public/info.html
script/generate controller home index
touch app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
touch public/stylesheets/screen.css
touch public/stylesheets/reset.css

Finally, add this to your routes:

map.root :controller => "home"