In my Redmine investigations that I’ve been writing about recently, I ran across an issue between a plugin and the latest version of Redmine. I really don’t know the first thing about about rails – I can read it, but I can’t always make sense of it, and I certainly don’t know the “expected” bitsContinue reading “Contributing back”
Category Archives: rails
Redmine and a scrum board
After a few days of playing and working with Redmine and some plugins, here’s where I’ve ended up: Redmine 0.8.7 (latest stable branch) Mercurial repository redmine charts plugin (http://github.com/mszczytowski/redmine_charts) redmine backlog plugin (http://github.com/relaxdiego/backlogs) I tried the redmine scrumdashboard plugin (http://github.com/thus/redmine-scrumdashboard-plugin), but was never able to get it even functional. The whole thing stacktraced under 0.8.7Continue reading “Redmine and a scrum board”
integrated project management for development
Ironically, the choices for an in-house integrated project management toolchain are, to my mind, significantly more limited than the straight up open-source market. I have been looking and watching several projects over the past months for something that I could use for my development team at work (i.e. behind a corporate firewall and not publiclyContinue reading “integrated project management for development”
debugging Active Directory LDAP authentication in Redmine
What else does a geek do on Christmas eve? How about some ruby on rails debugging, especially when I don’t really know anything other than the basics of Ruby on Rails. 🙂 So here’s what I’ve done and what I’ve learned, for the great search engine in the sky and the next time I findContinue reading “debugging Active Directory LDAP authentication in Redmine”
One of those interesting differences between python and ruby…
In fiddling with ruby, I noticed that the method names can be really interesting – rails (maybe others too, dunno) has some methods that look like: object.stop? which is typically used to return a boolean indicating wether or not “stop” is true. Ok, cool. Another interesting method call is object.close which appears to be identicalContinue reading “One of those interesting differences between python and ruby…”
Secret Weapons
As a generalist in the technology space, I’m constantly on the lookup for “Secret Weapons”. I’m not even sure when I first started using that euphemism, but that’s often how I think about a lot of technology. Ubuntu and/or Debian linux is an example. For running a service, it’s inexpensive, effective, and it has myContinue reading “Secret Weapons”
Ah! so that’s what happened…
I’ve spent most of the afternoon re-aquainting myself with Mac programming idioms, and generally getting myself into a veritable froth of possibilityand over-imagination about the CoreAnimation technologies. Outside of that, I finally backtracked into the world of Ruby on Rails to figure out why all the examples in the books were completely screwed up for me.Continue reading “Ah! so that’s what happened…”
Rails 2.0.2 is screwing me up
I think I picked a poor time to dive into and start learning Ruby on Rails. I’ve been reading and going through exercises from a fresh install and the plethora of great examples aren’t matching the new environment. It’s pretty close, but that little off from “right on the money” can be a real pain.Continue reading “Rails 2.0.2 is screwing me up”
learning ruby
I picked up my copy of the Pickaxe book four years ago – it’s even signed by Dave Thomas. I started to learn and poke at it a couple of times, but didn’t make any serious forays into it. The past couple of days is changing that. After a deep dark struggle with myself, I decidedContinue reading “learning ruby”
