Riffing on `interpose` implementations in Ruby
Implementing a new Ruby Enumerable method turns into an exploration of refinements, enumerators, RSpec block testing, & more…
Zero to Smoke Test with Sinatra
A walkthrough of getting an initial smoke test in place. Covers Rack::Test, OmniAuth, email_spec, Capybara, and more.
RubyTapas Freebie: Gem Love Part 2
I have a few ongoing miniseries in RubyTapas. In this, the second installment of a miniseries chronicling the creation of a Rubygems plugin and an associated server, I touch on…
Configuring database_cleaner with Rails, RSpec, Capybara, and Selenium
How I avoid finding myself in database bizarro world while testing Rails apps.
Testing that a block is called
CapnKernul asks: Hey Avdi. How would you test that a method’s provided block is called in RSpec? Would you stub #to_proc (for &block) and mock #call? Typically the way I…
Linkdump #7
Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good, and More Wise words. tags: development I think many developers (myself included) are easily seduced by new…
RSpec is for the literate
A couple years ago I wrote a library called AlterEgo. It’s an implementation of the State Pattern for Ruby. I consider the library to be retired at this point—other libraries,…
The happy developer
The programmer has a fixed amount of time and concentration that he can give every day. He must give a bigger piece of the pie to the bad technologies, simply because they…
Complex Hash Expectations in RSpec
When spec-ing something that calls method which takes a set of nested hashes (as many Rails methods do), it may be tempting to use #hash_including: to test for only the…