July 1st Hackfest

[Josh]

* Food, beverages, wireless provided by thoughtbot http://thoughtbot.com.
* Park Street T stop
* 7pm - 9pm

What do people want to hack on?

As is now tradition, we will head to Rock Bottom Resturant and Brewery
for some post-hackfest beers.


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I propose we call it 'The Great Beyond: Rails 2.1'. Could do stuff
like:

* Port someone's app to Rails 2.1
* Take someone's ported app, and use new shiny stuff.
* Take plugins hosted on github, and make gems out of them, to use
2.1's gem support

I'm interested in the plugin -> gem deal especially.

[Michael Breen]

On Jun 25, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Josh wrote:

> I'm interested in the plugin -> gem deal especially.

+1

Defiantly something I'd like to work through.

Best.
Mike

[Sean Hussey]

Same here, though I'm not sure whether or not I can make it.

Sean

Sent from my iPhone.

[Josh]

I found one kink in porting a plugin to a gem: there's not an
automatic way to pickup Rake tasks.

http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/59

On Jun 25, 10:17 pm, Sean Hussey <seanhus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Same here, though I'm not sure whether or not I can make it.
>
> Sean
>
> Sent from my iPhone.
>

[Josh]

I was playing around with converting a plugin or two to gems ahead of
time, and found echoe to be really straightforward:

http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/echoe/files/README.html

This is the main class, and the rdoc shows what you need to do in your
Rakefile:

http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/echoe/classes/Echoe.html

[gsterndale]

Would you mind posting your list of commonly used gems & plugins for
me Dan? How about you Josh? There were a couple you both mentioned
last night I'd like to checkout.

Anyone else maintain a list of go-tos?

A few of mine:
PLUGINS
acts_as_ferret
enumerations_mixin
calendardateselect
white_list
shoulda

GEMS
fastercsv
pdf-writer
will_paginate
mocha
ruby-debug
factory_girl


Thanks Dan, Josh and Thoughtbot!