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Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?

A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and effective. I now am going to digress a bit, take a step back and view the big picture to establish context. Before addressing test performance and what makes up a good test, we

Posted: Apr. 18, 2008 10:29 AM

CapGun Released! Super simple Capistrano deployment notifications

Tell everyone about your releases! Send email notification after Capistrano deployments! Rule the world! Drop your ActionMailer configuration information into your deploy.rb file, configure recipients for the deployment notifications, and setup the

Posted: Apr. 17, 2008 09:57 PM

history meme onwards

rsanheim@ares:~$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 71 gst 67 l 38 **** 38 c 28 git 22 ss 21 gca 13 gsd 13 : 12 rake I like keeping it short. The 3rd one thats bleeped out is a shortcut

Posted: Apr. 16, 2008 01:15 AM

If you think Huddle is ripping off Campfire

…then you haven’t seen mIRC, an irc client app that has been around for years: See anything familiar in the screen shot above? Tabs on the top, list of participants in the right hand pane, and chat in the main window. Change the font to

Posted: Apr. 8, 2008 09:25 PM

Zero to a Fully Git Enabled Rails App in the time it takes to drink an espresso

updated: now uses the real Rails git master at github, now that its live. So you want to set up a fresh Rails app in a fresh git repo, with proper ignores setup, with vendor/rails using a git submodule (which enables switching to any Rails branch or

Posted: Apr. 4, 2008 10:46 PM

log_buddy 0.0.2 released

Description log_buddy is your friendly little log buddy at your side, helping you dev, debug, and test. Synopsis Call LogBuddy.init to use log_buddy. It will add two methods to object instance and class level: “d” and “logger”

Posted: Apr. 4, 2008 04:26 PM

Rails is moving to Git (and Lighthouse)

The Rails core team is making a big move to Git (and Github) for source control and Lighthouse for issue tracking. I love the move to github - it will make managing patches and your small tweaks to Rails much easier to keep in sync with your chosen

Posted: Apr. 2, 2008 10:14 PM

How to move your domains off GoDaddy

Its common internet knowledge that GoDaddy is one of the worst, most unfriendly registrars out there. Go to NoDaddy for all sorts of nasty things that GoDaddy that make them completely disreputable, or google “godaddy sucks” for a thousa

Posted: Mar. 29, 2008 10:38 PM

log_buddy Released - your helpful little dev buddy

LogBuddy is your friendly little log buddy at your side, helping you dev, debug, and test. It plays well with Rails and plain old Ruby projects. To use it, sudo gem install log_buddy, then require 'log_buddy' and call LogBuddy.init. It will add tw

Posted: Mar. 28, 2008 02:05 PM

Testing Velocity - Keeping your test suite fast, Part 1

If you are a Ruby or Rails developer, and you know what you are doing, you are writing tests or specs. Tests express the intent of your code, help verify correctness, and aid in design and exploration. Rails gives you helpful conventions to follow

Posted: Mar. 26, 2008 06:30 AM

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