Category Archives: Ruby
No help from the log
Upon synching up, a colleague noticed that I had a test failing… kinda odd since I've been (trying to be) pretty good about keeping things up to date. Running them myself, we noticed that I was actually experiencing a quiet … Continue reading
Filed under rails, Ruby, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Requiring and Testing Cookies
Requirement: Users must have cookies enabled to use the site. If they don't: give them some sort of graceful warning to let them know there's going to be trouble. Doesn't sound too bad… it ended up being much more of … Continue reading
Filed under Cookies, rails, Ruby, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Testing the controller
A couple things I found very handy today while setting up a functional test for a controller. First off, this controller relies on a user being logged in (but this isn't the controller that actually manages the login process). The … Continue reading
Filed under Agile Software Dev, rails, Ruby, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Breakpointer
As indicated in the documentation on the wiki, setting a breakpoint in your application is really really simple… so why didn’t I get it working in 5 seconds (like it should take)? I had it in my head that this … Continue reading
Rubicizing
So far so good. In a fairly short amount of time I have an application with some basic functionality + user management (register, signin, email confirmations, etc). Very simple = very nice. So far I’ve been leaning pretty heavily on: … Continue reading
Filed under Agile Software Dev, rails, Ruby, SQL
One Web App
I'm happy to report that the tutorial app is now fully functional. Just one chapter remains: Testing. <sarcasm> and since testing is basically of no importance: I think I can just count it as completed</sarcarsm>
Filed under Agile Software Dev, rails, Ruby
Shock and Awe
Seems like with every new piece of the tutorial, I'm following comes another new 1-3 lines of code that just makes me say "that's it?". The incredible thing really is that you encounter them about 3 times a chapter!There are … Continue reading
Filed under Agile Software Dev, rails, Ruby
One Highly Productive Hour
It's amazing how much easier life is when the configuration is out of the way… I only had an hour to work on things tonight but was able to add the shopping cart to the tutorial application. Granted I am … Continue reading
Filed under Agile Software Dev, rails, Ruby
More fun with config
Well, the plan to work on the plane on the way ended up… ok. I ran into some more config problems – this time with MySQL, that I thought would be much easier resolved with internet access though so I … Continue reading
Filed under Agile Software Dev, rails, Ruby
