I’ve just released Redmine Kanban 0.2.0. This release includes fixes for eight bugs and 19 new features. This version requires Redmine 0.9, which is the current stable version of Redmine. Download The plugin can be download from the Little Stream Software project or from GitHub. Changes Bug #2807: Check for the aasm gem eariler in …
Tag: rails
Testing Rails Plugins on All Cores with parallel_tests
About 90% of my development is done on Redmine and well over half of that is done on Redmine plugins. That means that I write tests; a lot of tests. Over time though, they get slower and slower and start to become a drain on productivity (“5 minutes to run the tests on a feature …
Why I don’t use HAML or SASS
Seeing as the ERB vs HAML decision has now reached the armed conflict status, I figured that I would voice my opinions before it becomes yet another holy war. HAML, SASS, and ERB are all tools. From what I’ve seen, they are all very good quality and they all have their shortcomings. You can write …
Rails Testing Optimization – Benchmark your tests
I’m a big believer in writing automated tests for applications. Whether it’s before coding or after, tests keep the application working and easy to maintain. But what can you do when the application and test suite grow and start taking a longer and longer to run? Redmine is starting to be affected by this problem, …
Converting a Redmine plugin to a Gem
A lot of Rails plugins are starting to be released as RubyGems. I’ve found using RubyGems to manage plugins has been easy and have several advantages over a standard Rails plugin: built in versioning easy installation – no more installing plugins to the wrong directory pick a specific version to use not having to add …