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thoughts.inject(world), RSpec best practices - RSpec best practices

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled RSpec best practices. Posted 6 years ago in rails. A few days ago Philippe Creux posted his RSpec Best Practices and Tips. The post is well worth reading even if you prefer another test framework (you. Because there are several tips that are applicable to TDD more broadly than rspec alone. Of all the tips there are two that I cannot re-emphasize strongly enough: “Only One Expectation Per It Block” and “(Over)Use Describe and Context”. The “(Over)Use Context&rdquo...

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thoughts.inject(world), …and? - ...and?

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled …and? Posted 6 years ago. Lsquo;and’ and 'or’ originate (like so much of Ruby) in Perl. In Perl, they were largely used to modify control flow, similar to the 'if’ and 'unless’ statement modifiers. A common Perl idiom is:. Do something() or die “It didn’t work! The 'and’ and 'or’ keywords serve the same purpose in Ruby. Properly understood, 'and’ and 'or’ are control flow operators. The operators differ rather than. Blog comments powered by Disqus. The Tumblrs to Follow.

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thoughts.inject(world), getting into ancestry - getting into ancestry

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled getting into ancestry. Posted 5 years ago contains 1 note. I finally took the opportunity to play with the ancestry gem. Initially developed as a replacement for for acts as tree, ancestry has evolved to something much more akin to nested-set support in a tree-like structure. The advances allow you to pluck out a entire subtree or hierarchy path in a single trip to the database. Awesome. The ancestry gem dramatically reduces this. The gem provides a method called '...

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thoughts.inject(world), Qu’ils mangent de la brioche - Qu’ils mangent de la brioche

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled Qu’ils mangent de la brioche. Posted 6 years ago. The phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette often mistranslated into English as “Let them eat cake” seems particularly appropriate in light of the great post by the folks over at Engine Yard. The “cake” that the French noblewoman referred to was really an enriched bread that the upper classes could dine upon but was generally out of the reach of the starving peasants (all the more during a famine! Ouch Martin is generally...

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled RSpec best practices. Posted 6 years ago in rails. A few days ago Philippe Creux posted his RSpec Best Practices and Tips. The post is well worth reading even if you prefer another test framework (you. Because there are several tips that are applicable to TDD more broadly than rspec alone. Of all the tips there are two that I cannot re-emphasize strongly enough: “Only One Expectation Per It Block” and “(Over)Use Describe and Context”. The “(Over)Use Context&rdquo...

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled RSpec best practices. Posted 6 years ago in rails. A few days ago Philippe Creux posted his RSpec Best Practices and Tips. The post is well worth reading even if you prefer another test framework (you. Because there are several tips that are applicable to TDD more broadly than rspec alone. Of all the tips there are two that I cannot re-emphasize strongly enough: “Only One Expectation Per It Block” and “(Over)Use Describe and Context”. The “(Over)Use Context&rdquo...

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thoughts.inject(world), New Year’s Cleanup: Off Color Code - New Year's Cleanup: Off Color Code

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled New Year’s Cleanup: Off Color Code. Posted 6 years ago. For a number of reasons I have inherited a lot of code recently and I’m in the process of trying to clean up and put the finishing touches on a release we hope to see out the door soon. That’s the good news. The bad news is that my emphasis has had a lot more ‘clean up’ than 'finishing touches’ of late. What is Off-Color Code? The syntax highlighting on this site cannot even help there. What’s that? The uncertain ...

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thoughts.inject(world) - Best. Drink. Ever.

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Or send me a tweet. Posted 7 years ago. Best Drink. Ever. Blog comments powered by Disqus. About this site and its Author. The Tumblrs to Follow. This Tumblr Theme Created by. Cesar H Castro Jr.

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thoughts.inject(world), Constant-ly? - Constant-ly?

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled Constant-ly? Posted 6 years ago in ruby. I’ve gone back and forth about what should constitute a good use of class-level constants and a recent project has brought this question up once again. In this project there are basically two different uses for class-level constants. The first, and less frequent, use of class-level constants serves to identify “magic values”. The second use is to define a closed set of options. Class Constants as Magic Values. End end def walked?

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thoughts.inject(world), A Different Form of Ancestry - A Different Form of Ancestry

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Or send me a tweet. A Post Entitled A Different Form of Ancestry. Posted 4 years ago contains 1 note. Okay, this is not really a code-related post. Several months ago I sat down with my son and tried to teach him some good coding concepts. It didn’t last too long because… I had no plan. I didn’t really think much of it until last night. Wow I guess the lesson got through much more than I thought! Now, go build your own Ancestry: pass along your best coding skills to someone else. The Tumblrs to Follow.