I have a gazillion notes to myself in all sorts of places…
So I am going to start to slowly move them into this space as the need arises…
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BDD With Cucumber
I have enjoyed learning and using Cucumber for doing BDD/acceptance-level testing, and you can read some of my cucumber posts. As I was helping a client using the Cucumber front-end (a.k.a. “Gherkin” — a domain-specific language, or DSL) on a C# project using SpecFlow, I wanted to capture some of their ah-ha’s. Create Data “Close” …
Git is It!
cool thing about git… you have a local repository that you can do whatever you want with… you could use this at your work with no need for a remote repo! You can have your current code checked out from your repo, then create a local git branch to do some small work: To start: cd …
HAML
If you haven’t given HAML a try, you might want to consider it. My initial impressions are very favorable, and I was actually excited about how smooth things went. Allow me to explain… There is a 50-50 chance you will like haml. From what I can tell, it is not necessarily an either-or decision for …
Map-Reduce with MongoMapper (Part 1)
I’ll come back and describe this in more detail. I just wanted to toss it out here while I have it on hand… I couldn’t find a tutorial that I grokked clearly enough, so I will make my own. This is just the first baby step… eventually it will grow to multiple params and date …
Speedup Testing with Spork
Speeding up Testing Testing a rails app can sometimes really suck… Part of it is loading the rails stack (20-30s), and part of it is how you design some aspects around test data creation (if it is expensive) and user login, etc. A good combination to help on the technical side of things is spork …
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