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We recently decided our CI server needed an overhaul. I really enjoyed Integrity as a build server, but after trying out Hudson it’s hard to say I want to go back. Hudson has several huge advantages.

Integrity is the angel watching over your shoulder while you code. As soon as you push your commits, it builds, runs your tests, and makes sure everything works fine.

If you’re testing the behavior of deprecated code in your Ruby project, the warning messages littered throughout your spec output is incredibly noisy.

You could silence all warnings with ::ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silenced = true, but you might...

Artifice allows you to replace the Net::HTTP subsystem of Ruby with an equivalent that routes all requests to a Rack application.

You can use Sinatra, raw Rack, or even Rails as your application, allowing you to build up an equivalent to the remo...

decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s fast_context as a solution for it. fast_context compiles all the ‘should’s within a context into a single test.

Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in your specs.

In this presentation, I demoed Cucumber and Webrat. I also talked about Integrity and how I like to put it all together.

Steak is like Cucumber but in plain Ruby.

A check if two date or time ranges A and B overlap needs to cover a lot of cases:

1. A partially overlaps B
2. A surrounds B
3. B surrounds A
4. A occurs entirely after B
5. B occurs entirely after A

This means you actually have to check that:

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