RubyGeek

I’ve been kinda on a rails spree lately, I guess I’ve had some free time and also redoing a rails 1.1.6 project (and was noob then and no clue of what I was doing) and updating it to use REST.

I got Geoffrey Grosenbach PeepCode’s REST Tutorial, which is very awesome and well worth the 9 bucks. Its over an hour long! I also got the RJS Tutorial which is also awesome. I can’t wait till payday to get the $40 pack so I can get some more! There’s just something about SEEING something work that makes it stick sometimes.

Also I spent some time on Railscasts which features a ton of short demos on rails topics. Very cool. In particular i liked Testing Without Fixtures which is cool because sometimes fixtures are a PITA!

When watching one of the PeepCode screencasts I saw him using “autotest” .. a cool toy which I must have too! I searched for it and found this posting on his blog. Now I’m autotesting all the time It basically monitors your rails site and runs the test everytime you change your code.

I’ve been using e-TextEditor and slowly learning the shortcuts. I love the font that was on PeepCode’s screen cast and found a link on the PeepCode FAQ where I can download it. For Free! And it mentioned the name of the theme used in Textmate — which happened to be the one I had found in e-Text-Editor and was using. No wonder I liked it! I also used this font in my Putty settings and changed the awful default colors (esp that dark blue! hard to see!). e-TextEditor is in Beta but its in great shape and i was so happy to see a “close all tabs” feature put into the latest build. I’ll be ecstatic when they make a linux version.