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helen — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:39:38 -0700

UML and Rails

helen — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:25:00 -0800

I found we can have a better picture of our ROR applications with UML diagrams, which also help us to communicate better with our business clients.

I just started to look for some good UML tools for Rails developers. Please let me know if you found something.

On Windows, maybe we can use Dia for Windows (Win32). YOu can also use Dia on Linux and Unix

Or you may use StarUML to visualize your rails app: Visualize your Rails schema You may check out this great Open source tool: Graphviz and install this Rails plugin: Rails Application Visualizer

This project promised something we’d love:to provide full roundtrip engineering of Ruby Code – ArgoUML for Ruby but it seems the development slowed down. Did you find something better?

More and more people are turning to SVN from cvs

helen — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:42:00 -0800

More and more people are turning to SVN from cvs

Subversion is an open source application for revision control(or version control). Also commonly referred to as svn or SVN, Subversion is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CVS and shares a number of the same key developers.

“Subversion is meant to be a better CVS, so it has most of CVS’s features. Generally, Subversion’s interface to a particular feature is similar to CVS’s, except where there’s a compelling reason to do otherwise.”
—– from the official Subversion web site.

For more information, please refer to:

Answers.com On SVN(Great details from Wikipedia)
If you want to setup SVN server and client on Windows, 1-Click SVN Setup is great for you. Otherwise, if you just need a client to get code source from other SVN server, you can just install Plugin for Windows Explorer - TortoiseSVN, implemented as a windows shell extension.

Examples: Google Code Projects are using SVN.

Well Done! Typo is running.

helen — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:19:00 -0800

Finally got this Typo on ROR to work with Lunarpages server after their great tech support helped me to move to a Ruby server.

Let me know if you need help on setting your Typo on your site hosted by Lunarpages.