So after 1 year and 3 months I have decided that I will be making a move from my current company of Mirai España, in Madrid to Xing in Hamburg.
I have previously lived in Berlin for a year, so know what the German lifestyle is like. But even though I am very much looking forward [...]
Archives for December 2009
From Mirai to Xing
Hold the phone
Okay I have just realised something, I can just test use bacon along with rack-test to test rails applications using bacon. So scrap what I said yesterday. Now we will go with this
Bacon
Rack-test
Mocha
I think it is a good idea to write tests at the rack level. It means that your tests, and your testing skills [...]
Can we do it? Yes we CanCan
So, I just watched the latest screen cast from Ryan Bates of railscasts.com fame, on a plugin that he has written called canan. It is an authorization plugin and he wrote it in response to a plugin that he had previously reviewed called declarative authorization, which he thought (and I agree) is too heavy weight [...]
Testing another testing stack
Okay I have decided that I will test out using this testing stack on everything that I work on, so that I can become really excellent with this combination.
The stack is
TestUnit (An oldie but a goodie)
Shoulda
Mocha
Matchy
And that is it, hopefully these should keep the tests clean, manageable and easy to read.
I will also be using [...]