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Chad Woolley

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Friday, October 17 2008
59 When loading a plugin via rubygems, rake tasks aren't included was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley commented at 5:49 PM

    Here's a more concise summary of my take on the issue, from the mailing list thread:

    Basically, I think preinitializer.rb should be used to activate gems, wheth...
  • Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley commented at 5:39 PM

    Why do we need a new initializer when you can accomplish the same thing via preinitializer.rb, and avoid this issue entirely?

    I've been restraining from pimping...
Saturday, August 30 2008
324 Gem dependencies inconsistently load rails/init.rb was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley commented at 7:51 PM

    This is a key feature. I personally don't care about unpacked gems, but I'd love to have plugins just work as external gems.

    I also don't care about it working ...
Thursday, August 14 2008
824 Make Gem Dependency Optional was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley commented at 1:24 AM

    I'm -1 on this. What is "optional"? Also, how does this relate to the "development" flag on ruby gems (added in 1.2.0, see gem install --help). See comments ...
Thursday, June 12 2008
312 Database config in Ruby was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley commented at 2:22 AM

    -1

    See comments on mailing list thread (which contains another -1 from another poster) for explanation.

Sunday, May 04 2008
103 Lighthouse Rake Tools was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley commented at 6:20 AM

    Yes, this looks nice. Please release it.

Wednesday, April 30 2008
51 Gem dependencies can be listed in config/gems.yml was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Chad Woolley
    Chad Woolley commented at 2:36 AM

    Hi Simon,

    The config.gems was originally started as a yaml file approach, but then that was decided against.

    If you want a robust approach which uses a yaml ...