A couple things I found very handy today while setting up a functional test for a controller. First off, this controller relies on a user being logged in (but this isn't the controller that actually manages the login process). The easiest way I found to make sure that I was properly logged in was to [...]
Entries from April 2006
April 21, 2006
Breakpointer
As indicated in the documentation on the wiki, setting a breakpoint in your application is really really simple… so why didn’t I get it working in 5 seconds (like it should take)? I had it in my head that this command started your server in a debug mode. ruby script/breakpointer When (as the documentation really [...]
April 19, 2006
Rubicizing
So far so good. In a fairly short amount of time I have an application with some basic functionality + user management (register, signin, email confirmations, etc). Very simple = very nice. So far I’ve been leaning pretty heavily on: Pick Axe – Especially Chapters 27 (Built-in Classes and Modules) & Chapter 28 (Standard Library). [...]
April 17, 2006
Cutting back on the feeds
Lots going on in the last month or so and I’ve fallen _way_ behind on my feed monitoring… from friends to tech to just miscelaneous fun stuff, I just haven’t been able to keep up. So, I’ve cut way back on my feeds – getting rid of probably 40% of my tech blogs and maybe [...]
April 6, 2006
Seeking Alpha
Well, it’s been a whirlwind of a last week but I’ve gone from not having any new employment opportunities on my radar (and not really looking for any) to accepting a new position! It became official last Friday – 4/7 will be my last day for Smart Solutions and I’ll be starting up right away [...]
April 3, 2006
One Web App
I'm happy to report that the tutorial app is now fully functional. Just one chapter remains: Testing. <sarcasm> and since testing is basically of no importance: I think I can just count it as completed</sarcarsm>
April 1, 2006
Shock and Awe
Seems like with every new piece of the tutorial, I'm following comes another new 1-3 lines of code that just makes me say "that's it?". The incredible thing really is that you encounter them about 3 times a chapter!There are about 5 things just from this afternoon that I could really put here but I'll [...]
