All blog posts from May 2007

Changing rake :default to use RSpec

May 29, 2007

I dug around a little before digging into the Rake RDoc (which is great!), but I didn't find anything on the intertubes about this so I figured I'd post here in case somebody else is looking.

Hijacking the default Rails rake tasks is actually pretty easy, but if you just try to redefine it by adding…

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CodeRay helper for Rails

May 9, 2007

While I'm using Markdown for formatting blog entries, I wanted to have some decent syntax highlighting support as well. After looking around I decided to use CodeRay. It's fast, customizable, has nice output, and is easy to extend. All I had to do to make it work with Rails was to create a helper. I…

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Internet Explorer 5,6,7 on Linux

May 8, 2007

Anyone doing web design or development on a windows box will likely appreciate this - A simple way to not only install IE in linux, but install several versions and with common plugins to boot.

IEs4Linux allows you to easily install IE6, IE5.5, and IE5 on any linux computer - there are distro-specif…

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