Well, we’re sick of it…..and we’re not the only ones!

Bill Mill's RT Rant

ShouldIRT allows you enter two twitter usernames to determine if one user should be retweeting another user.

ShouldIRT Example

In this case, I probably want to think twice about retweeting one of @yflicker’s tweets, as I’m bound to piss off more people than I’d be informing. It even provides a quick shortcut to tweet a warning out to the offending retweeters.

We hope you’ll give ShouldIRT.com a try and follow @ShouldIRT. If you manage development of a Twitter client and would be interested in integrating this service into it, send us a tweet.

If you enjoy ShouldIRT.com, then stay tuned for the following micro apps coming from SmartLogic:

• Who Is the Person Behind the Institution?
• How Many Freaking Accounts Does this Person Have?
• Would I Be Better Off Reading cnn.com than Following this Person?
• Is Today Cinco de Mayo?.com

Special thanks to Nick Gauthier for contributing the bulk of the development effort on this project.

  sudo gem install environmentalist

The only substantial change in this release is that we moved the loading of postboot.rb to the bottom of the boot.rb file as opposed to the top of config/environment.rb. This was necessary because common db rake tasks like db:create and db:drop stopped loading the environment in 2.3.2.

As a recap, environmentalist provides an executable that converts a rails app’s config structure. The basic idea is that environments themselves are now first-class citizens, allowing you to create several environments (e.g. staging, prodtest, demo, etc.) in a clean, organized fashion. Each environment is given its own folder where it can store its own set of configuration files (think mongrel configs, apache configs, etc.) without polluting the top-level config/ directory.