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Josh Nichols

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Saturday, June 19 2010
4907 db:abort_if_pending_migrations fails with exception if development database h... was created in Ruby on Rails
  • Josh Nichols
    Josh Nichols created the ticket at 8:46 PM

    I just started up a fresh rails 3.0.0.beta4 project and tried running the default rake task, before having created a database or really any code. It failed with...
Sunday, January 17 2010
3725 include paths for gem bundler in generated gitignore was created in Ruby on Rails
  • Josh Nichols
    Josh Nichols created the ticket at 6:11 PM

    Rails 3 now generates a gitignore file for you:

    db/*.sqlite3
log/*.log
tmp/**/*

    However, it doesn't include paths to match the files gem bundle would generate...
3398 script/plugin install fails doesn't populate new directory in vendor/plugins was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Josh Nichols
    Josh Nichols commented at 5:23 AM

    I've tested with a non-RC version, 1.6.6, and still see the same behavior.

    Looking at the code suggests that something about the git command is not exiting clea...
Saturday, January 16 2010
3269 Add a default .gitignore for Rails was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Josh Nichols
    Josh Nichols commented at 4:46 PM

    This seems to be implemented:

    $ ruby railties/bin/rails zomg --dev
# snip
$ ls zomg/.gitignore 
zomg/.gitignore
3398 script/plugin install fails doesn't populate new directory in vendor/plugins was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Josh Nichols
    • Tag changed from 2.3.4, git, install, scriptplugin to 2.3.4, bugmash, git, install, scriptplugin
    by Josh Nichols at 4:43 PM
3706 uninformative error message when using 'markdown' helper without bluecloth gem was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Josh Nichols
    Josh Nichols commented at 4:38 PM

    That matches the behavior I'm seeing, but contradicts bundler's documentation:

    # Don't auto-require this gem.
gem "rspec-rails", "1.2.9", :require_as => nil

#...
  • Josh Nichols
    • Tag changed from action_view, markdown, rails3 to action_view, bugmash, markdown, rails3
    by Josh Nichols at 5:38 AM
  • Josh Nichols
    Josh Nichols created the ticket at 5:38 AM

    If you happen to use the markdown helper, like so:

    <%= markdown(post.body) %>

    You get a pretty uninformative error message:

    ActionView::Template::Error (unin...
3705 imrove readability of `script/generate` (without args) was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Josh Nichols
    • Tag changed from rails3, rails_generator to bugmash, rails3, rails_generator
    by Josh Nichols at 5:39 AM
  • Josh Nichols
    Josh Nichols created the ticket at 4:38 AM

    The current output of script/generate without any args isn't particularly readable (ie its hard to find the generator you want), and doesn't display usage (like...