December 2010
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I now present you a feast of knowledge
Some of you may know that for a few months Adam Walters and myself have been working on a project to scratch an itch we had. One day I had this realization that, as software developers, we don’t have a formal place for education after any schooling/training we may have received. I mean we have books and articles that are filled with information but more and more I found that our...
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I now present you a feast of knowledge
Some of you may know that for a few months Adam Walters and myself have been working on a project to scratch an itch we had. One day I had this realization that, as software developers, we don’t have a formal place for education after any schooling/training we may have received. I mean we have books and articles that are filled with information but more and more I found that our...
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Testing Scopes in Rails3
A while back there seemed to be this secret programming war going on… how do we test named_scopes?
It came down to the type of tester that you were. You could build out the ActiveRecord objects you needed and assert that when the scope was called, the correct objects were returned. Or you could call the scope and assert that the #proxy_options (conditions) you expected to be passed were...
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Rails Upgrade Makes a Query Frowny Face
In what I thought would be a quick and inconsequential upgrade to Rails 3.0.3 from 3.0.1 I ran into a problem. For some reason I am getting some rouge quotes around a join statement in one of my app’s queries.
Luckily I had a cucumber test to cover the scenario that uncovered this hot mess. So now I must step through the changes between 3.0.1 to 3.0.3 to see what caused this bummer of...
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