Under the Hat

A couple of weeks ago I watched the RailsCast on Searchlogic and saw Ryan use some gem called Hirb. It looked interesting for sure, so I wrote it down to check it out to completely forget about it.

Until yesterday.

What is Hirb?

A mini view framework for console/irb that’s easy to use, even while under its influence. Console goodies include a no-wrap table, auto-pager, tree and menu.

OK. What does that mean?

It improves irb’s default output a lot. And by a lot, I mean, A. LOT.

In case you like it, you might want to set it up to autoload in script/console for all your Rails projects. In order to do so, add the following to your ~/.irbrc file:

if ENV['RAILS_ENV']
  require 'rubygems'
  require 'hirb'
  Hirb.enable
end

Resources

• Searchlogic RailsCast
• Hirb
• Hirb - irb on the good stuff
• Hirb tips for rails

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If you’re a developer, you know how it goes. At the beginning of a project, you draw some UML sketches to get you going. There’s a nice tool to do that. As your project goes on, and your code grows, these diagrams don’t get updated too often. After all, every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system. And for a class model, that representation is the code.

But at some points during your development, you have to communicate with some stakeholders. They want to know what your class model looks like. So you have to provide them with a drawing. Until recently, we went through the trouble of creating these diagrams manually. But those days are over: we found yUMLmeRails

To get yourself a diagram, follow these steps:

cd your_project
script/plugin install \
	git://github.com/nelsonsilva/yUMLmeRails.git
rake yUMLmeRails:download

Your diagram will be saved in your_project/diagrams.

Easy. Nice. Handy. Did I mention ‘pie’ ?

Let’s assume:

• You have an iPhone
• You love your iPhone
• You have a Flickr account
• You want to share your pics by using only one service: Flickr
• You have a Twitter account
• You want to share your pics on Twitter

Now imagine, you can do all this stuff in one go. Life would be great, no?

Enter Flickr2Twitter. Set it up, and you will love your iPhone even more.