[Rails-core] Arel and a SafeBuffer, redux

2011-10-31 Thread Jay Levitt
Back in March, J. Smith wrote: I've written a patch for Arel to provide a feature similar to the > ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer class that allows for by-passing some of Arel's > quoting mechanisms when using, say, String#sql_safe, similar to #html_safe. > At the time, discussion focused on the ab

Re: [Rails-core] Hacking on performance?

2011-10-01 Thread Jay Levitt
Cool, I was hoping the Rack thing was still in play. So some initial questions after looking at your Gist and reviewing Aaron's slides, but before diving into the existing Rack API: Technical: - I like the clear separation of "on the way in" vs "on the way out" in yours. - Aaron's Filter obj

[Rails-core] Hacking on performance?

2011-09-26 Thread Jay Levitt
going discussions, or...? Has there been any traction on the idea of a new Rack API? I imagine that would need lots of gruntwork coding to make it happen. Guidance and mentors welcome... Jay Levitt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: C

[Rails-core] Re: RoR Developers Needed (glendale, ca)

2008-01-14 Thread Jay Levitt
t; For what it's worth, I apologize for their behavior. Good on you for stepping up! I do, however, have a strong temptation to contact Lealah Lee and ask for the number for my local pizza place. -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when the

[Rails-core] Re: Rewikify-rails project

2008-01-08 Thread Jay Levitt
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 03:07:09 +0200, Michael Klishin wrote: > On 8 Jan. 2008, at 02:56, Jay Levitt wrote: >> http://groups.google.com/groups/rewikify-rails > > Correct URL is /group/rewikify-rails : > > http://groups.google.com/group/rewikify-rails Aw, you're just sh

[Rails-core] Re: Rails core team - only development?

2008-01-08 Thread Jay Levitt
send mail to it? Could you e-mail me the bounce message? (jayZjay.fm, where Z is the at sign.) I *think* I set it up so anyone who joins can send to it, and I did see one test message from Anthony Kelly, so that seems to be working. -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My c

[Rails-core] Rewikify-rails project (was: Re: Rails core team - only development? (was: Rails core team - only development?)

2008-01-07 Thread Jay Levitt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:04:38 +0100, Anthony Kelly wrote: > Jay Levitt wrote: >> I can actually spend some time on it this week, especially if someone's >> there to crack the whip I mean remind me I mean help me test it. > > Ooh, ooh, Pick me. Anyone who's int

[Rails-core] Re: Rails core team - only development?

2008-01-07 Thread Jay Levitt
s changes - and more work, in general. Also, geeks suck at seeing things from the viewpoint of anyone less experienced than they are. A good writer can balance all that out. So can a good editorial system (e.g. better wiki software, which we're working on, for some value of &q

[Rails-core] Re: Rails core team - only development?

2008-01-07 Thread Jay Levitt
received it... I can actually spend some time on it this week, especially if someone's there to crack the whip I mean remind me I mean help me test it. -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shou

[Rails-core] Re: Rails core team - only development?

2008-01-05 Thread Jay Levitt
from getting to work). As a serial well-intentioned suggester, I strongly agree. -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://w

[Rails-core] Re: Looking for +1 on patch to make default database more Windows-friendly

2007-12-20 Thread Jay Levitt
in which case you know about MS Access and Jet and SQL Server and whatever Microsoft's latest lite-desktop-SQL engine is called. Better to have one default everywhere. -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Fa

[Rails-core] Rails wiki database dump?

2007-12-20 Thread Jay Levitt
I want to experiment with importing i2's wiki into MediaWiki this weekend. Anyone know who I could talk to to get a database dump? Also, what would be a good scripting language to munge the data? [Ha! I crack me up.] -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My char

[Rails-core] Re: CookieSession recommendations

2007-12-19 Thread Jay Levitt
nfections. In *theory*, there are a lot of legitimate reasons for a user's IP address to change during a session, which would break this. But I have no idea if any of those ways really happen with any significant frequency, so I'm really not implying-by-asking - just asking. -- Jay Levitt

[Rails-core] Re: Rails core team - only development?

2007-12-18 Thread Jay Levitt
a shot. Go for it. Oh, I will, Rick Olson. I will indeed. Er, I mean, anyone know where I can get a DB dump of the i2 wiki? -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at ja

[Rails-core] Re: Rails core team - only development?

2007-12-18 Thread Jay Levitt
it are down > at the moment, but maybe they'll get them back up soon. :) See, that's what I'm saying... :) -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hi

[Rails-core] Re: Rails core team - only development?

2007-12-17 Thread Jay Levitt
ou're thinking about it, and organizing your thoughts later. MediaWiki has two additional benefits: Huge numbers of people are already familiar with how to use it (thanks to Wikipedia), and there are a bunch of automated tools that work with it. What would it take for rails-core to even co

[Rails-core] Re: Merging Better Nested Set?

2007-11-25 Thread Jay Levitt
; argument). I wish I could enunciate my objection better, but for lack of that, I'll just repeat: Something seems wrong. There oughta be a better way. -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or sh

[Rails-core] Re: [PATCH] DRY up mysql/postgres yaml generators

2007-11-07 Thread Jay Levitt
econd. I actually use Robert's syntax myself, as I'm sure many developers do, but it would be too daunting for a first-time configuration. Now, if there were a way to specify "default:" at the top, and have the *code* that reads database.yml merge in the default hash keys, t

[Rails-core] Re: refactoring ActionView

2007-09-30 Thread Jay Levitt
the framework"!! -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message be

[Rails-core] Re: Making tests run faster (now a plugin)

2007-09-25 Thread Jay Levitt
g anything with it. I often test expirations by mocking Time.now; will your time-freeze interfere with my mocking, no matter whether I'm mocking in FlexMock or Mocha or RSpec? -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot

[Rails-core] Re: Migrations w/o down methods irreversible by default

2007-09-22 Thread Jay Levitt
7;s no way to reverse this, or I didn't think about how to reverse this", which this patch would do. An empty down would signify "reversing this is a no-op", and it seems like that would still work with this patch... -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA

[Rails-core] Re: plugin dependencies

2007-09-19 Thread Jay Levitt
*shouldn't* build any. Or maybe it's because we just haven't hit the pain point, but we're about to. What I find really fascinating is that Perl, which comes from a very similar TIMTOWTDI perspective, has begat CPAN, which (from what I can tell) very often has

[Rails-core] Re: plugin dependencies

2007-09-19 Thread Jay Levitt
If plugins really have this level of dependancy, they're > better off duplication the functionality I guess. Do you really want to go back to the days where we all had to roll our own linked lists? -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like

[Rails-core] Re: More stuff to pluginize ?

2007-09-19 Thread Jay Levitt
ugin that needs has_many callbacks should duplicate that functionality internally. -- Jay Levitt| Boston, MA| My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm

[Rails-core] Re: plugin dependencies

2007-09-19 Thread Jay Levitt
e and more core functionality into plugins, it really should be revisited - if only to be re-argued in the present tense. I'm working on a relatively small app on Edge that already uses a dozen plugins, and we've just gotten started. I don't think that's going to be uncommon.

[Rails-core] Re: Comments on patch #9521 requested

2007-09-12 Thread Jay Levitt
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:36:58 +0100, Andrew White wrote: >> HTML4 is fine. But it isn't fine enough that it deserves the support >> of Rails. > > To me that would make Rails dogmatic rather than just opinionated > software. No, /that/ isn't what makes Rails dogmatic... Jay --~--~-~

[Rails-core] Re: Comments on patch #9521 requested

2007-09-12 Thread Jay Levitt
east read the OP's links? At the moment, at least, the XHTML track is (a) highly problematic in the present and (b) not getting a lot of love in the future. Jay Levitt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

[Rails-core] Re: Comments on patch #9521 requested

2007-09-11 Thread Jay Levitt
option added to the framework? Should it really take a plugin to make Rails generate valid HTML, however pedantic that validation may seem? That just seems silly and adds to the Rails-is-a-toy FUD. Jay Levitt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message bec

[Rails-core] PROPOSAL: Rails generator filename extensions

2007-08-31 Thread Jay Levitt
Since my last proposal was so roundly applauded... Today, Rails templates all use the filename extensions of their target files - a template that will become an .rb file ends in .rb. But they're not .rb files; they're .erb files. They are not necessarily valid Ruby. And this conflicts with a w

[Rails-core] Re: Trac RSS feed broken

2007-08-31 Thread Jay Levitt
On Aug 30, 6:16 pm, "Josh Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/30/07, Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This started working again for a day or so, but then it stopped, so > > I'm bumping this in case someone thought it

[Rails-core] Re: Trac RSS feed broken

2007-08-30 Thread Jay Levitt
On Aug 21, 12:09 pm, Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the past few days, trying to browse the RSS feed at > > http://dev.rubyonrails.org/log/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss > > results in: > > Python Traceback > > Traceback (most

[Rails-core] Re: Soft failing deleting-type migrations

2007-08-29 Thread Jay Levitt
Interesting... I didn't expect such a negative reaction! When the problem happens to me, it's usually because (a) I've written a migration that aborted, or (b) I tried to merge and renumber two migrations but forgot to roll back first, thus often yielding problem (a). When that happens, I've got

[Rails-core] Soft failing deleting-type migrations

2007-08-28 Thread Jay Levitt
I'm sure we've all had the experience of our development database getting out of sync with our migrations, and having to comment out this and that to get the migrations working again. It seems to me that it would be good to have the option to keep going after a failed drop-column or drop-table op

[Rails-core] Trac RSS feed broken

2007-08-21 Thread Jay Levitt
For the past few days, trying to browse the RSS feed at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/log/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss results in: Python Traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/csw/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 406, in dispatch_request dispa