GitHub rocks!

Published December 18th, 2008 in git.    1 Comment.

I know you have heard this before (and probably already believe it), but I just had to say it. GitHub has truly, IMO, changed the way open source projects can be started and developed. Let me tell you a little story in form of a timeline:

  • December 9 2008 – While hanging out in #cucumber, on freenode, agib (Aaron Gibralter) asked about testing emails in a rails app. I had

Global Setup In RSpec or How To Add Logging For Specs

Published July 4th, 2008 in rspec, story runner.    No Comments.

Brian Morearty had an interesting post on how to add additional information to a rails testing log when using Test::Unit. The benefit of this is that you can quickly scan your log file when a test fails and see clues on why it failed. If you’re using RSpec you can add the same functionality all within the confines of the RSpec API for both specs (examples) and the story runner.

Global Setup for

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Ben spends all day at work writing Ruby and far too much of his free time doing the same. He earned his Bachelors and Master degrees in Computer Science from the University of Utah. Other than Ruby the areas of software engineering, programming languages, and machine learning usually keep him busy. While on IRC he is known as 'mabes' and can be seen in the #rspec and #cucumber rooms the most often. In his "real" life he enjoys running and other outdoor activities.

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