I'm an emacs freak. I've been an emacs freak for... forever... no, since 1991. Anyhow, I've been continually evolving my emacs setup (under revision control) since 1996 and am always looking for things to increase my productivity without being too heavyweight. I'll share what I can here. I'll start with one of my new favorites: (define-key...

I'm an emacs freak. I've been an emacs freak for... forever... no, since 1991. Anyhow, I've been continually evolving my emacs setup (under revision control) since 1996 and am always looking for things to increase my productivity without being too heavyweight. I'll share what I can here. I'll start with one of my new favorites: (define-key...

Heckle is a mutation tester. It modifies your code and runs your tests to make sure they fail. The idea is that if code can be changed and your tests don't notice, either that code isn't being covered or it doesn't do anything. Changes: 1 major enhancement: Unified diffs for mutatated methods 4 minor enhancements: Now returns exit status 1 if...

Heckle is a mutation tester. It modifies your code and runs your tests to make sure they fail. The idea is that if code can be changed and your tests don't notice, either that code isn't being covered or it doesn't do anything. Changes: 1 major enhancement: Unified diffs for mutatated methods 4 minor enhancements: Now returns exit status 1 if...

ruby2ruby provides a means of generating pure ruby code easily from ParseTree's Sexps. This makes making dynamic language processors much easier in ruby than ever before. Changes: == 1.1.5 / 2007-02-13 3 minor enhancements: Can now heckle ActiveRecord::Base in full. Cleaned up 1-liner generating code. Made clean/simple rescues 1-liners. 7 bug...

ruby2ruby provides a means of generating pure ruby code easily from ParseTree's Sexps. This makes making dynamic language processors much easier in ruby than ever before. Changes: == 1.1.5 / 2007-02-13 3 minor enhancements: Can now heckle ActiveRecord::Base in full. Cleaned up 1-liner generating code. Made clean/simple rescues 1-liners. 7 bug...

ParseTree is a C extension (using RubyInline) that extracts the parse tree for an entire class or a specific method and returns it as a s-expression (aka sexp) using ruby's arrays, strings, symbols, and integers. Changes: 2 major enhancements: rewrite extracted and intended to be run before (or in front of) process. rewrite is now recursive as...

ParseTree is a C extension (using RubyInline) that extracts the parse tree for an entire class or a specific method and returns it as a s-expression (aka sexp) using ruby's arrays, strings, symbols, and integers. Changes: 2 major enhancements: rewrite extracted and intended to be run before (or in front of) process. rewrite is now recursive as...

Hoe is a simple rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It generates all the usual tasks for projects including rdoc generation, testing, packaging, and deployment. Tasks Provided: announce - Generate email announcement file and post to rubyforge. audit - Run ZenTest against the package check_manifest - Verify the manifest clean - Clean up...

Hoe is a simple rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It generates all the usual tasks for projects including rdoc generation, testing, packaging, and deployment. Tasks Provided: announce - Generate email announcement file and post to rubyforge. audit - Run ZenTest against the package check_manifest - Verify the manifest clean - Clean up...

From an IM with Eric Hodel: "I ran it on [insert scary class name here] it finally ran into a [method in the r's] about 2 hours later I think it found no errors so heckle will tell you one of three things about your code: its well tested, its poorly tested, and its so coupled that test failures must happen because its crap." (emphasis mine) I...

From an IM with Eric Hodel: "I ran it on [insert scary class name here] it finally ran into a [method in the r's] about 2 hours later I think it found no errors so heckle will tell you one of three things about your code: its well tested, its poorly tested, and its so coupled that test failures must happen because its crap." (emphasis mine) I...

I totally forgot to blog this! ParseTree version 1.6.4 has been released! http://rubyforge.org/projects/parsetree ParseTree is a C extension (using RubyInline) that extracts the parse tree for an entire class or a specific method and returns it as a s-expression (aka sexp) using ruby's arrays, strings, symbols, and integers. 1 minor...

I totally forgot to blog this! ParseTree version 1.6.4 has been released! http://rubyforge.org/projects/parsetree ParseTree is a C extension (using RubyInline) that extracts the parse tree for an entire class or a specific method and returns it as a s-expression (aka sexp) using ruby's arrays, strings, symbols, and integers. 1 minor...

If you develop on OSX and want to try out image_science, things just got even easier: % sudo port selfupdate % sudo port install freeimage % sudo gem install image_science I welcome any and all help on the linux side to get freeimage packaged up in their various packaging systems. It'll make it easier to get freeimage accepted on various...