Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17

• @aslak_hellesoy your blog is throwing 502's in reply to aslak_hellesoy #
• finally started to publish my gems to gemcutter, jruby-quartz is available now http://bit.ly/7NGO5Z #
• finished the rails 2.3.5 upgrade for more notes and gotchas http://bit.ly/7FdX5L #
• Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 upgrade gotchas: update your rspec and rspec-rails gems to 1.3.x #
• Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 upgrade gotchas: ActiveSupport::JSON::ParseError no longer exists, use ActiveSupport::JSON.parse_error #
• Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 upgrade gotchas: db:seed task exists in Rails, if you use seed_fu plugin it will default to db:seed_fu as the task name #
• having a blast with a hundred sinatra microapps running, (lightbulb moment) now i have to write a script to kill them #
• needed to test the http timeout stuff with jruby 1.4, sinatra to the rescue! in 2 seconds i wrote a microapp and spun up, friggin' awesome #
• working on the Rails 2.3.5 upgrade now, combined with jruby 1.4, the speed of our specs has improved #
• #jruby 1.4 upgrade complete without pulling any hair out and it seems a bit faster than 1.3.1, let's see if those timeout settings work #
• upgrading to jruby 1.4 right now due to net/http timeouts being ignored in versions < 1.4 causing threads and requests to hang forever #
• wagilefall – defn. Those under some disillusion claiming they are agile when they are really waterfall #
• RT @tonycoco BREAKING NEWS: Mark McGwire took steroids. In other news, kids like puppies! in reply to tonycoco #