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I needed to test some code that reads and writes files on the filesystem. I got sick of manually setting up a scratch area for my test files and cleaning them up when I was done, so I created Sandbox to keep my tests DRY.

UPDATE 4/20/2010: Well Grounded Rubyist is not prerelease anymore. Corrected. UPDATE 6/30/2011: Fix links to _why’s poignant guide, since he vanished from the earth. Add a bit about finding live people to help you.

The latest master Sinatra now supports optional block parameters. It captures any parameters in the URL and passes them into the block that defines the action: get '/hello/:name' do |n| "Hello #{n}!

It seems that it’s not well publicized, but if you want to run your RSpec files with autotest try autospec instead. It looks inside the spec/ directory for files named “*_spec.

I’m getting all packed for CodeMash! Hope too see a lot of you there. I’m a little bit disappointed by the dearth of Ruby sessions, but there are enough of us that the open sessions will be rockin’.

Update: Deskin points out that there is a commit to git that fixes this problem by adding a --root option to rebase --onto. So when you get a new build of git, you can probably ignore everything here.

This is a Capistrano recipe I use to configure my production database.yml. Before deploy:setup executes, this recipe will prompt for a database password and save a new database.yml file to the shared directory on your server.

I generally think that new year resolutions are silly, but since it’s the new year and I have some goals I’d like to set, I guess I might as well call them resolutions.

Ruby Hoedown 2008 videos are now live. There are a lot of good talks. I highly recommend checking them out. I’ve set up a torrent of all the videos for your convenience.

To make TextMate’s RubyMate work with MacPorts (or any other non-default ruby install) just set TM_RUBY environment variable to be the path to your custom ruby interpreter in TextMate’s preferences. Custom environmental variable settings are located under ‘Advanced’->‘Shell Variables’ in TM’s prefs.