Maintainable News

In the articles section, Derek DeVries has a detailed tutorial that shows how to get the most out of Parallels Desktop for Rails development.

Mike Naberezny has a new article on Autotest from the ZenTest suite. It was even featured on Ryan Davis' blog, the author of Autotest.

Finally, RubyOSA gets a new website! The new website was developed by the Maintainable team working with Apple and provides a great new resource for this promising project.

Several new articles are now available in the Resources section. For Javascript, we show you how to start unit testing with the Unit.Test component of Scriptaculous and how to speed up your page loads using JSMin. We also have a new article describing the basics of Rails logging along with some tips for creating your own logs and observing logs on the Rails console.

Derek DeVries has released Cookie Crumbs, a new plugin for Ruby on Rails. This plugin makes it easy to store more than one value in a single cookie, getting around the maximum limit of twenty cookies. It also includes a Javascript companion library for manipulating crumbs on the client side.

On RubyForge, Mike Naberezny has joined Laurent Sansonetti of Apple as the second core developer of the RubyOSA project. RubyOSA provides Ruby bindings for the Apple Event Manager infrastructure, allowing Ruby programs to automate Mac OS X applications in the same way as AppleScript. Mike will be working on new features for RubyOSA, improving its test coverage, and launching a new website for the project.