Hey everyone, I’m happy to announce the release of Koala 1.1rc3! Looking back, the previous release should have been a beta, since we’ve made a number of changes and improvements. Batch API Interface Change Most significantly, we’ve made a breaking change to the Batch API interface. This was not an easy choice, but the original implementation [...]
In which we play around with mobile. I’ve been playing around with mobile websites for the last two months — learning about app caches and localStorage, hacking around with jQuery mobile, discovering the limits of mobile devices. It’s a huge, complicated, fascinating wilderness, and along my way I’ve come up with or stumbled upon a few [...]
In this post, I’ll discuss the whys and hows of Javascript testing; briefly discuss Jasmine, a testing framework; and review some of potential challenges in testing Javascript, which I’ll discuss in more detail in several follow-up posts. I like Javascript. The language has some great features that make it possible (even fun) to build powerful, [...]
I want to do the following in Rails. Anyone know if it’s possible? I have a a sortable list of pictures with a bunch of embedded form elements (thumbnail and full-size URLs, remote IDs, etc.). I’d like to set this up with array-style form elements so that the order of the form elements in the [...]
I spent some time last week making the Koala test suite compatible with Rails 1.9/Minitest/RSpec 2/Rails 3. Along the way I encountered a few issues and learned a few lessons that may be useful to those making the same transition. Undefined method ‘it’, ‘before’ or ‘after’ for MyTests:Class (NoMethodError) These errors baffled me at first [...]
Check out Koala’s official documentation on our Github wiki! It has all the same content, but as of version 0.5.0, the wiki is more up-to-date. I’m excited to announce the first release of Koala (http://github.com/arsduo/koala), a lightweight and flexible Facebook Graph library for Ruby. Introductions all around Using Koala, you have complete access to the [...]
In which our heroes learn to their surprise that a fundamental assumption is wrong. 10:57:47 AM Alex M: omg 10:58:07 AM Alex M: I just learned something incredible about how css selectors are applied 10:59:29 AM Alex K: really 10:59:30 AM Alex K: what what 10:59:38 AM Alex M: yes! 10:59:40 AM Alex M: it’s [...]
In this post, I explore how to implement asset packaging with Jammit on a Dreamhost server using Capistrano and Rake. (Much of this will be useful to those not on Dreamhost, too.) Background I’ve been working on a Javascript project called Rainydays, bringing together a number of important, reusable tools I’ve written in the last [...]