We're investigating including TinyTDS in http://railsinstaller.org If you have any feedback on it, that would be awesome for all the "new to rails" developers who'd love an easy way to connect to their existing data.

As an insider, I've now looked at it and its awesome. For many of the sass modules, there is a sample page for each showing how buttons, forms, widgets will look & feel. Its deployed with AppCloud and accessed to internal staff via the Admin console. Very nice.

Excellent idea! :)

I've moved this suggestion to the ticket system https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/8925379

Nic

On hiring, new (technical & non-technical) staff receive a Mac. Some of our support/ops tasks require Windows (some use Windows machines, others use VMs), but in 2010 I don't believe we did any development on Windows.

Ken, can you drop an issue on the ey gem's issue tracker? https://github.com/engineyard/engineyard/issues That'd be fantastic help.

Nic

Comedy gold!

Initially I was just solving the "get it working at all" then I did "get it working simply" task (which I decided I could in good faith share gleefully!)

I remember some of the Mocra guys looked at headless js integration testing earlier in the year; but haven't seen a canonical "this is the bestest solution in the world" solution.

Perhaps can you re-post the headless section of your blog as a stand alone post so people can easly find + reference it? I think the solution to this is very important and significant.

I don't have anything for this yet in the "ey-hudson" project yet, but would dearly love to have an easy solution to it!

I need to shave more often.

@Jason - "Engine Yard Open Source Program" is the set of full-time staff on Rubinius, JRuby, fog, Rails 3.0, Bundler, and the associated projects. Yehuda Katz is also the first of a top secret program of additional contributions to open source. But that's top secret. :)

Tom, always looking forward to a good family dinner!