I brought up the question whether tests should call the translation API when checking for the presence of a string...
Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll...
Write declarative tests using nested contexts without performance penalties. Contest is less than 100 lines of code and gets the...
Pure-Ruby alternative to Cucumber.
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...
On any page accessed with SSL, all Ajax requests must use SSL, or they will fail. To make this happen...
Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in...
Background allows you to add some context to the scenarios in a single feature. A Background is much like a...
All methods generated by string_attr_reader are now added to that new module instead of the class. The result...
The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...
Deadweight is RCov for CSS, kind of. Given a set of stylesheets and a set of URLs, it determines which...
decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s...
Stop writing your own random string generators. Rails does this for you.
Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer that embeds the entire Chrome web rendering engine inside IE.
validate( "email".is("required").andIsAn("email") );
Apple's random rules for iPhone app approval are a recipe for trivial apps and alienated developers
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