Today I needed remote access to a gem I've been tinkering with for a while, so I pushed it to Gemcutter. It's called jstdutil, and it provides a small Ruby wrapper over JsTestDriver that adds colored output, a short, snappy `jstestdriver` command and autotest.

Full article Jstdutil - A Ruby wrapper over JsTestDriver.

Since this summer, I've been test driving all my JavaScript code using Google's fairly fresh JsTestDriver project. If you're intrigued by TDD with JavaScript, including automatic testing (in a console, or - if you're a masochist - an IDE), test suites of 300+ tests running in 498ms as well as shiny red and green output, you should read on.

Full article Test driven JavaScript done right.

I still get the occasional comment/request for help for Juicer on the original announcement. Due to spam problems I've now closed comments for the post and opened a Google group instead. Welcome to juicer-dev.

Full article Juicer Google group.

Last night I gave a presentation to the local Ruby user group in Oslo on tools for supporting test driven development in JavaScript.

Full article Slides from my JavaScript TDD presentation.

Gitorious is an open source Rails application for managing your projects: Git repositories, wikis, timeline and more. Not identical to, but not completely unlike GitHub. Being open source means you can set up your own Gitorious, even in private mode and host all your company's projects. In this article I'll show you how to get it running.

Full article Setting up Gitorious on your own server.

RVM (Ruby Version Manager) is a hot tool which makes switching between Rubys (1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.1, JRuby, you name it) as simple as `rvm use 1.9.1`. However, on Ubuntu, you may hit trouble when using the openssl package for any non-system provided Ruby version.

Full article Ruby version manager, Ubuntu and openssl.

A quick tip on how to customize the look of todo items in Emacs org-mode.

Full article Emacs org-mode todo colors.

A couple of weeks ago I received a pull request from Mike Demers for Twibot. However, in contrast to the occasional bug fix I receive, this branch included several new features.

Full article Twibot gets a bunch of new features.

It's been quiet around here for a while. It's been quiet around Juicer, too. Both of those are going to change. After being given a push, Juicer is now finally up for some updates.

Full article Upcoming updates to Juicer.

I recently launched a website that among other things displays "tweets" (status messages on Twitter) from a predefined set of Twitter users. In this article I'll show you how you can create a stateful Twibot bot with a custom handler to put tweets in your database using ActiveRecord from a Rails application.

Full article Collecting tweets with Twibot and ActiveRecord.