Rails vs. Seaside

I have started my first app in Rails at work. Though I find it's ease of database access really appealing, I am not convinced that I find it a better suit than Seaside. There is something about programming everything in Smalltalk that is so much more appealing than figuring out "OK, what can this view see now? What does this partial know about? What does that controller have its fingers into?"

It's killing me trying to find out the context in which everything lives. In Smalltalk I know what the context is... I can evaluate things, I can set breakpoints (OK, self halt), I can send messages to known classes -- not just some digital ether.

Until next time...

About the test

Well, things went pretty smoothly for the most part. The only thing that didn't work as expected was the link. I didn't add the HTTP protocol, so it showed up as a link to a supposed page on Blogger.

Let's try that again, shall we? Here's a link to Squeak.

This is a test

I am writing this from my Blog Poster desktop applet. So, for now this is just a test to see how things go.

From this applet (desktoplet?) I can add links to things I like, I can italicize, and I can bold face things.

So, how does it show up on the web?

Until next time...

Test

This is a test of posting by sending email.

--
Jason Rogers

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me."
Galatians 2:20

Creating Test Suites In Ruby

The following is one way to create a suite of tests automatically in Ruby. There are probably better ways, but this works for me.

require 'test/unit'
require 'test/unit/testsuite'
require 'test/unit/ui/gtk2/testrunner'
require 'test/unit/ui/console/testrunner'

# The initial definition of AllTests is here so
# that we can refer to it in our redefinition of
# Class#inherited

class AllTests
  TESTS = Array.new
end

class Class
  def inherited(arg)
    if arg < Test::Unit::TestCase
      AllTests::TESTS << arg
    end
  end
end

Dir.glob('*test.rb').each {|f|
  require f
}

class AllTests

  def self.suite
    suite = Test::Unit::TestSuite.new('All Tests')
    TESTS.each {|t| suite << t.suite}
    suite
  end

end

if __FILE__ == $0
  Test::Unit::UI::GTK2::TestRunner.run(AllTests)
else
  Test::Unit::UI::Console::TestRunner.run(AllTests)
end

Talk ye of all His wondrous works. I Chron. xvi. 9.
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We do not talk sufficiently about God. Why it is so may not be easy to explain; but there seems a too great reticence among Christian people about the best things. In the days of Malachi, "they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard." We talk about sermons, details of worship and church organization, or the latest phase of Scripture criticism; we discuss men, methods, and churches; but our talk in the home, and in the gatherings of Christians for social purposes, is too seldom about the wonderful works of God. Better to speak less, and to talk more of Him.

But probably the real cause of our avoidance of this best of topics, is that our hearts are filled with so much which is not of God, and they speak out of their abundance. You may judge the contents of a shop by what is put in the windows; and you may judge of the inner life of too many Christians by the subjects which are most familiar to their lips. The heart does not seek for God and his strength, nor his face continually; and therefore we find it hard to talk of all his wondrous works.

But go back in thought to the day of Pentecost. One of the first signs of the descent of the blessed Spirit was that the crowd heard every man speaking in his own tongue the wonderful works of God. What God has done in the past, as recorded on the page of Scripture; what He is doing day by day in the world around, and in our hearts; what He has promised to do on the horizon where heaven and earth shall blend in the Second Advent -- yield fit themes on which his children may beamingly talk to each other, till He goes beside and talks with them till their hearts burn.

-F. B. Meyer

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Mr. Meyer indicates, but does not make explicit, the fact that this sort of conversation cannot be manufactured. Luke 6:45, "...for of the abundance of the heart [the] mouth speaketh." As we spend time with the Lord in our prayer closets and meditate on His precious letter to us our conversation will naturally be changed. May the Lord bless us all with that grace!

Esh-baal,... Merib-baal. I Chon. viii. 33, 34.

A thought from F. B. Meyer

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Esh-baal,... Merib-baal. I Chon. viii. 33, 34.
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Baal was the idol-god of Zidon and of many surrounding nations. This idol, representing the sun in his productive force, was worshipped with impure and scandalous rites. The introduction of this name into the appellation of one of Saul's sons indicates the secret root of the declension and consequent misfortunes of that ill-fated monarch. In the earlier part of his reign he was perfect in his allegiance to Jehovah -- Jonathan means "Gift of Jehovah" -- but as the years went on, he became proud and selfsufficient; he turned to Baal, the Spirit of the Lord departed from him, and an evil spirit rushed in to take His place, as wind rushes in to fill a vacuum.

The name which Jonathan gave his son had another significance. Merib-baal is one who opposes Baal. It is as though he would indelibly stamp upon his child an undying hatred and opposition to that idolatry which was undoing his father's character and kingdom. In this choice of his child's name we also gather the deep-seated piety and devotion of that noble soul, whose heart was true to God amid the darkening shadows of his father's reign. It was this that probably drew David and him so closely in affinity.

How absolutely necessary it is for the peace of a household that there should be a oneness of devotion to God! Where that is the first consideration, there is peace and blessedness; and that it may be so, it is of the greatest importance that the parents should be constant in their godly allegiance. The ruin of Saul's home, family, and realm, began in his personal disloyalty to God; and how far he influenced the nation for evil it is difficult to estimate.

Personal Menu for Squeak

Things I like to have on my Personal Menu in Squeak...

 |spaceTallyPath|
 spaceTallyPath := FileDirectory default
   fullPathFor: 'STSpace.text'.
 aMenu addLine.
 aMenu add: 'SpaceTally [', spaceTallyPath, ']' translated
   target: SpaceTally new
   action: #printSpaceAnalysis.
 aMenu add: 'Empty Trash Can' translated
   target: Utilities
   action: #emptyScrapsBook.
 aMenu add: 'Clear Command History'
   target: CommandHistory
   action: #resetAllHistory.
 aMenu add: 'Collect Garbage'
   target: Smalltalk
   action: #garbageCollect.
 aMenu add: 'Flush MC Caches (follow this with a GC)'
   target: MCFileBasedRepository
   action: #flushAllCaches.

Heman the singer. I Chron. vi. 33.

A thought from F. B. Meyer

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Heman the singer. I Chron. vi. 33.
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This is a very brief record to put on a man's grave, but a very expressive one. To decipher that epitaph about Heman is to learn a good deal about him. From this clue we might almost construct his entire personality and character. And it would be well if it could be said of us that we had ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Lord.

Would you be a singer -- not on Sundays only, but always; not with your voice only, but in your heart; not only when the sunshine pours into the open casement through the swaying boughs of honeysuckle, but when the shutters tell of bereavement and removal -- then remember these rules: -- (1st.) God must put the new song into your mouth; (2nd.) You must be fully consecrated to Him; for the song of the Lord only begins when the burnt-offering is complete. (3rd.) You must not go into a strange land, for it is impossible to sing the Lord's song there.

Sing on, dear heart, sing on. There is nothing that scares off the devil so quickly as a hymn. Luther said, "Let us sing a hymn, and spite the devil." There is nothing that so well beguiles the pilgrim's step, and quickens his pace, when the miles are growing long and weary. There is nothing that brings so much of heaven into the heart. Singing makes every movement rhythmic, every service praise, every act thanksgiving. Sing when times are dark, you will make them bright; sing when the house of life is lonely, it will become peopled with unseen choristers; go down into the valley of shadow with a song, and you will find yourself singing the new song of Moses and the Lamb when you awake on the other side.