Currently I’m busy developing a Rails Application. I’m busy developing some general classes that aren’t part of a model/controller or view. I placing these classes in the ‘lib’ directory.
Things are fine … well not quite …

The problem while developing is the libraries aren’t reloaded on each request. This is very frustrating when you are trying to write a library.

Some things I found (but don’t seam to work):

Rest the application in the console. Well the application reset, but not the libraries.

I assume the libraries directory is loaded in the ruby booting class loader. ( I’m still thinking Java ). So when Webrick starts these libs are loaded.
The models and controllers etc. are loaded by the rails class loader.

Somehow I need to reload the library in the rails class loader space…. Doesn somebody have a solution!?
Perhaps I should find another directory…

I will keep you informed if I find a solutions.

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1 august 2007: Well found a solution for the problem, I even wonder if it really was a problem….. (shame on me)
If I place the class “MyOwnClass” in the file “lib/my_own_class.rb” without including the source file. (This isn’t required, because Rails automatically includes it) it seems to be refreshed every time I do a request…

Nice.. !

I’ve decided to use Mantis Bugtracker as the bugtracking tool for libhttpd. This is the tool I already was using before placing it on sourceforge. And I’ve got pretty good experience with it.

There’s one problem, I would like to make others post bug reports directly into Mantis. The problem is that Mantis doesn’t have a Captcha plugin for submitting bug reports.

For the time being It’s not allowed to sent bugreports directly without registering.

You can find the bugtracker (currently empty) at http://bugs.gamecreatures.com/

I don’t like the issue tracker that’s available at sourceforge. Some problems it has:

• Very short Title. Much to short for a descent description.
• Deleting categories isn’t possible.
• Very limiting in descriptions etc.
• I’m missing the features mantis has..

I need to setup a bugtracking system for libhttpd myself

Since today the Java HTTP Library has been released to sourceforge. (Finally).
You can find the project page at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/java-libhttpd

This means the new subversion repositry is accessible by everbody. The URL For the SVN respositry is:

I’ve changes some things

• Removed my E-mail address. (hopefully from every source file).
• Changed the License type to Apache 2.0 (Needed to change every source file)

There are some things that still needs to be done:

• Fixup a good website
• Move some private bugtracker items to the sourceforge bugtracker.

Pheeew. Much more work then I suspected…
Now to bed. It’s midnight….

Currently I’m working on an application for a client. It’s build in Ruby on Rails. After using ActiveScaffold for the startup I’ve decided to remove this plugin and write my own Ajax table.

I found a nice article / sample about this subject: http://dev.nozav.org/rails_ajax_table.html

The article is nice for a single table, but I need multiple tables, so I need to wrap some stuff in helpers. But that shouldn’t be a problem.