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 Tagged as ‘Agile Software Dev’
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 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 [...]
March 31, 2006
One Highly Productive Hour
It's amazing how much easier life is when the configuration is out of the way… I only had an hour to work on things tonight but was able to add the shopping cart to the tutorial application. Granted I am following along from a canned example and having everything spoon fed, but still: it seems like [...]
March 29, 2006
More fun with config
Well, the plan to work on the plane on the way ended up… ok. I ran into some more config problems – this time with MySQL, that I thought would be much easier resolved with internet access though so I didn’t get too far. Now that I’m back home though: still haven’t found a great [...]
March 23, 2006
Getting Started
Well, I didn’t get off to a very good start as my copy of Agile Web Development with Rails immediately crashed on me. What’s that you say? That’s the risk you take ordering a pdf book instead of the “real thing”? Well, it wasn’t a pdf – the physical copy of the book crashed! I’m [...]
