Ruby

Earlier today Christian Johansen pushed the button and published Juicer v1.0.0 as a gem. For those unfamiliar with Juicer, it’s an open source Ruby based tool that allows you to merge and minify your JavaScript and CSS files. Internally, Juicer uses JSLint to keep your JavaScript in good shape and supports both YUI Compressor and Google Closure Compiler to make your CSS and JavaScript files as small as possible. I have written about speeding up your Webby site with Juicer previously, and with the new version there are even more features to like. These are the new features that exites me the most ...

We have recently run into problems with “rcov”:http://eigenclass.org/hiki/rcov crashing with seemingly random errors, like /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol.rb:11: [BUG] Bus Error ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03) [universal-darwin9.0] Having CruiseControl.rb suddenly claim that all builds are broken, get’s to be very annoying. Working on a large project without coverage reports is just not the same, once you get hooked on thoroughly testing the application you’re working on. After some hunting around on Google, it turns out that others have run into similar problems. ...