Had issue today with autospec never stopping, and found this article, but I did have the autotest-rails gem installed.  Thanks to Mario Aquino’s article here, I learned that you can pass -v to autospec/autotest and it will print out what triggered it to run.  My culprit was rerun.txt, and then I found buried in the Cucumber documentation:

If you find that autotest runs your features continuously, your features may be changing a file which autotest is monitoring as they run. Use a setting like this to ignore such files. You’ll likely need to set autotest to ignore “rerun.txt” as well.

So, to your project’s .autotest or at ~/.autotest, add something like this:

Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
%w{.svn .hg .git vendor rerun.txt}.each {|exception| at.add_exception(exception)}
end

At least, that’s what my ~/.autotest has, and after adding rerun.txt in there, everything is good.

Hopefully this will help someone else googling for the same thing I was with no luck.

We love music around here, which is why we’re always showing off what were listening too over on the left. Some time ago I automated the process of looking up album artwork using the Amazon API and posting it on or blog.

This approach has a couple advantages over things like last.fm, like being able to select exactly what you want shown, and automatic linking to amazon for affiliate commissions.

I’ve packaged everything up into a wordpress plugin and put it on my github page here:  http://github.com/jaredmoody/wp_now_playing

It also comes with a nice applescript so you can submit what’s currently playing to your blog with a single click:

I’d love some feedback on it, and patches are also more than welcome.

Please report any issues on the github page, thanks!

I hadn’t done this before and everywhere I googled suggested using a custom interpolation to replace :basename in the default :path and :url params to has_attached_file

The problem with this is 1. the actual image_file_name column in the database doesn’t get replaced 2 whatever you put in your interpolation function gets run every time the image url gets generated.

The answer is just rename the image_file_name before the model gets saved.

I couldn’t find this anywhere, but pieced it out from the article on riding rails:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install id3lib-ruby