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Ceasing Rails-CMDB Development

mrpurpleduck — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:53:39 +0000

I’ve not done any development on Rails-CMDB for over 2 years and no longer make use of it so I’m officially killing off the project and will be removing the files from my web site in the very near future and I’ve also requested that the project is removed from Ruby Forge.

If by some chance someone wishes to continue the project please do drop me an email.

Update (03/06/2010): The project has been removed from Ruby Forge.

Adding support for Services to Rails-CMDB

mrpurpleduck — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:25:44 +0000

I’ve just checked my work in progress of adding support for modeling services in Rails-CMDB into SVN, it’s not really ready for production use yet (i.e. I may change the model in incomputable ways) and it’s lacking much code and tests.

The following is a my current thoughts on the process flow for modeling transitions of services:

I’m thinking buying a license for OmniGraffle, as I can’t edit the above diagram any more, it seems a lot nicer than Visio which I use quite a lot at work. The only thing is the Professional version worth the extra money ?

Rails-CMDB now hosted on Ruby Forge

mrpurpleduck — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:20:34 +0000

Last month I migrated Rails-CMDB over to Ruby Forge, however I did not get the chance to announce that it happened. Details of accessing via SVN can be found here.

There’s some small fixes now checked into SVN, but not enough to warrant a new release. I now plan to try and restart it’s development and may be even create mailing lists for development discussion and commit emails if there’s interest.

Update (2010-07-10): Development on this project has now ceased, see this post for more details.

Rails-CMDB release 0.5.0

mrpurpleduck — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:40:26 +0000

I’ve released a new version of Rails-CMDB which has been updated to use Rails 2.0.2. It includes a number of other features which I had not gotten round to releasing. There’s more details behind the cut, it can be downloaded from here.

Hopefully I’ll have the time to migrate the SVN repo to RubyForge sometime later on this month.

0.5.0 (2008-01-19)
- Upgrade to Rails 2.0.2.
- Fixes and general improvements for the upgrade to 2.0.2
- Added the following plugin’s:
  - classic_pagination
  - will_paginate
0.4.7 (2007-12-12)
- Add Location to environments Breakdown of models.
- Re-order columns in environments Breakdown of devices.
- Use Rails version 1.2.6.
0.4.6 (2007-12-02)
- Do not display items with zero counts in the following Environments reports:
  - Breakdown of devices (counts).
  - Breakdown of models (counts).
0.4.5 (2007-12-02)
- Added model breakdown report.
- Add the following Environments reports:
  - Breakdown of devices (counts).
  - Breakdown of models (counts).

Rails-CMDB release 0.4.4

mrpurpleduck — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:36:16 +0000

I’ve released a new version of Rails-CMDB with some extra reports and behind the scenes improvements. Details behind the cut, it can be downloaded from here.

Add the following Operating Systems reports:
- Breakdown of Operating Systems (counts).
- Devices which are in sale Operating Systems.
- Devices which are in support Operating Systems.
Use a partial for the list of Operating Systems reports.
Use partials for reports where possible.

Rails-CMDB release 0.4.3

mrpurpleduck — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:54:43 +0000

I’ve released a new version of Rails-CMDB with some reports. Details behind the cut, it can be downloaded from here.

Add Reports Controller module.
Add the following Operating Systems reports:
- Devices with end of sale Operating Systems.
- Devices with end of support Operating Systems.
Add tests for Reports controller.

Rails-CMDB release 0.4.2

mrpurpleduck — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:13:38 +0000

I’ve released a new version of Rails-CMDB with some minor improvements. Details behind the cut, it can be downloaded from here.

Added show by IP address.
Re-factored ‘List by Network’ page.
Cleanup the front page.
Added routes for the following URLs
- /show/device/:name
- /show/hardware/:name
- /show/ip_address/:name

Rails-CMDB release 0.4.1

mrpurpleduck — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:24:39 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve managed to do a release of Rails-CMDB. This is mainly because I got stuck working parts of the test suite and I’ve been doing things that have kept me away from a computer.

However over the last few days I’ve managed to get an import integration story working, which seems to be working. I’ve also taken the chance to migrate to Ruby on Rails 1.2.5, but there are some DEPRECATION warnings still to dealt with.

Behind the cut is the changelog.

Use Rails version 1.2.5.
Added list_by_purchase_order page.
Fix some formatting issues with the side bar.
Fix some issues in importing of data.
Added some extra edit links to the device page.
Add environments export and import.
Correctly name CSV exports.
Added Export tests.
Added Import integration test.
Renamed the removed_on column in Assets to retired_on.
Many fixes from better unit, functional and integration tests.

Testing import of CSV imports in Ruby on Rails

mrpurpleduck — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:42:10 +0000

It’s been a few weeks since I did any work on Rails-CMDB. This is mainly down me being busy and getting stuck on how to test the import of data. I’ve come to the conclusion that it really is an integration story, so now the problem is how to do the file uploads.

It’ll not be hard to generate a complete set of CSV files and place them on disk, but my issue would be how to upload them. Does anyone have any useful suggestions ?

Rails-CMDB release 0.4

mrpurpleduck — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:45:28 +0000

It’s taken a long time to get this release of Rails-CMDB ready for release, as I’ve done some tidying of the code base, plus adding lots of unit and functional tests. I’ve also improved the the views into the database and added the notation of Environments within Locations.

The source code can be found here. Not sure what is going to be in the next version, however I would like to get a public Subversion repository set up when I feel the testing good enough to catch any issues.

See below the cut for the (incomplete) change logs for version 0.4 (and the unreleased 0.3).

Changes in version 0.4

Added functional tests.
Updated (and added more) Unit tests.
Many minor fixes and improvements.
Added List devices by site page.
Removed unused welcome controller.
Use link_to for Home links instead of hard coding.
Added a default mongrel_cluster.yml file (prefix: /rails-cmdb, and 10 servers).
Renamed os model to operating_systems.
Reduced the ActiveRecord timeout to be less that MySQL session timeout.
Added support to add/update non-required date fields in controllers for models that needed them.

Changes in version 0.3, which was not released.

Added unit tests for all models.
Added functional tests for the login and admin controller’s
Renamed date fields to follow Rails conventions (ending in _on instead of _date).
Remove some unused fixtures.
Enforce uniqueness of name attribute in the following models:
- Hardware
- IpAddress
Enforce presence of manufacturer_id in Model Model.
Clean up uniqueness and presence statements in User.
Enforce uniqueness of name in Os Model.
Enforce presence of vendor_id and ordered_on in PurchaseOrder Model.
Rename serial_number attribute to name in the Hardware model.
Updates to the version 0.2 CHANGELOG entry.