Here are a few of the open source projects that Terralien crew members are involved in:
test/unit Nathaniel Talbott
One of the first things Nathaniel did when encountering Ruby five years ago was to write a unit testing framework. Originally called Lapidary, it quickly gained an audience, was renamed to test/unit, and ended up in the Ruby standard library. It has stood the test of time amazingly well. You can learn more about test/unit through its RDoc, and there’s a short tutorial on the RubyGarden wiki. Rumor has it that there’s a successor in development, but you didn’t hear that from us!
QueryTrace Rails Plugin Nathaniel Talbott
QueryTrace is a Rails plugin for pinpointing where in your Rails application that slow query is running. While ActiveRecord takes you half-way there by logging all queries and how long they’re taking, it won’t answer the question of where they’re being executed. Enter QueryTrace – once you have it installed, your logs won’t just tell you that you have a problem, they will pinpoint the exact location of that problem for you. Get it here.
Radiant CMS John Long
A no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams, Radiant is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is more of a general purpose content management system (not just a blogging engine). John initially created Radiant for the Ruby Web site. You can learn more about Radiant over at radiantcms.org.
