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Trac is an excellent web-based wrapper for SVN that adds bug tracking, a wiki, and several handy project management features. I keep setting up new repositories up for all the little projects we cook up in DB2 Technical Marketing, so I thought I’d write up a guide.

Installing Trac, SVN, and dav_svn for Apache2 is left as an exercise for the reader.

Create a new SVN repository:

Create a new Trac environment:

Change the owner to Apache so that it can read and write:

Navigate to Apache site settings:

If you want Trac to support multiple repositories, edit the trac file to look like this:

The above assumes that all the repositories are in /var/trac

Navigate to Apache settings:

Append to dav_svn.conf:

The above lets you check out from http://yoursite/svn/Project

If you like, you can add a new user to dav_svn.psswd:

Users can then be granted permissions by editing the dav_svn.authz file. Sample file:

Restart Apache:

killall apache2
apache2

You now have have an Trac/SVN install with SVN at http://yoursite/svn/Project and Trac at http://yoursite/trac.cgi

The latest nightlies of Webkit (development branch of Apple Safari) now have the web inspector in them. It doesn’t replace the tools in the other browsers, but it does have one very effective piece of unique functionality — a page load graph that gives an exact breakdown of order-of-loading and time-to-load of each script, stylesheet, and image.

First of all, enable the debug menu. It gives you access to the Javascript console and such things.

1. Open C:\Documents and Settings\chng1me.T40-92U-V46\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari
2. Open Preferences.plist
3. Insert the lines below mid-file:

Open Safari by executing run-nightly-webkit.cmd in your Webkit install. Right-click and the inspect an element from the context menu.

Now, click on the icon in the bottom left-hand corner and choose Network.

Voila!

Apple has released Safari 3 Beta for Windows. Besides being slick and a pleasure to look at, it finally lets Windows-based web developers test their sites for the 5% that use Macs.

The other browsers that good web developers like us should test for are Opera, IE 6, IE 7, and Firefox.

Rails

dW | Turbocharge Ruby on Rails with Active Scaffold (June 2007)
dW | DB2 and Ruby on Rails, Part 3 (June 2007) [added]
dW | DB2 and Ruby on Rails, Part 2 (June 2007)
dW | DB2 and Ruby on Rails, Part 1 (May 2007)

I am using ActiveScaffold in my next mini-project.:)