A Tale of two codebases
I just finished working on notes for a Java5/jUnit4/TDD tutorial. This is a version of a Ruby/rSpec/BDD tutorial that I recently wrote. The app is a simple “guess the secret code” game. The contexts of...
View ArticleRSpec On Rails
Nice post by Defiler on RSpec: RSpec On Rails: RSpec is mere days away from a new release with greatly improved Rails support. Since people are currently paying me to write Rails code, rather than...
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TextMate book
TextMate Power Editing for the Mac James Edward Gray II I’ve read a couple of the beta versions of this book from the Pragmatic Press. It’s good. If you are using TextMate, you should have this book....
View ArticleThe Ruby Way
I’ve started reading the 2nd edition of “The Ruby Way” by Hal Fulton. So far it’s been good. I’ve been popping it open somewhat randomly so far, but plan to take a more structured look at it shortly....
View ArticleDescribing Equivalence Classes in Ruby with RSpec
Here’s an article I wrote a while ago but didn’t get around to releasing. Enjoy. Describing Equivalence Classes in Ruby with RSpec Since writing that article, I’ve made good use of the code. Here’s...
View ArticleRubyConf 2007
I’m sitting in the airport in Charlotte, on my way home from RubyConf2007. What a fabulous conference. This the most enjoyable conference I’ve been to in a very long time. There was so many great...
View ArticleRSpec + JRuby
My coworker, Paul Zabelin, posted here on some ideas that we’ve been experimenting with using RSpec stories and JRuby.
View ArticleRSpec is a hit, who’d o’ thought?
Well, RSpec is doing well. A couple things of note recently: part of the install on hivelogic’s rails install instructions clear majority favorite on a recent twtpoll: with merb being rolled into...
View ArticleI’m back
As I’ve mentioned on Twitter & Facebook, I’m back to doing Ruby & Rails fulltime. Joining Google took me out of the Rails community & largely out of the Ruby community. At least until very...
View ArticleOn Smalltalk
In his RailsConf keynote Bob Martin channeled Ward Cunningham to say that Smalltalk died because “It was too easy to make a mess”. Whether Smalltalk is dead is the subject of much debate. Technically...
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