Simpler Machines

Most of the advice I've gotten about burnout has been useless-to-actively-harmful. "Have you tried yoga and meditation?" "Take more time off." "Don't get so worked up about work." If you've gotten this advice, you know that it is garbage. It doesn't help you solve your problem, and it maybe has

Given the brittleness of RSpec's have_tag matcher and the presence of new Webrat and Capybara matchers that do a better job, have_tag was not included in rspec-rails-2.

Last week I talked about how I didn't know what an ActionDispatch::TestResponse was, or how and why it gets returned in tests instead of an ActionDispatch::Response. This week we'll figure that out with a close read of the code for the TestResponse class. Along the way, we'll learn

This week I got to the part of the "Learn Enough to Be Dangerous" Rails Tutorial where you write a couple of tests for a static page controller. The test it asks you to write looks like this: class StaticPagesControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest test "should get home" do get static_

One of my goals for this summer is to spend some quality time with Rails. I’ve got a copy of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, and some ideas for applications I might build. This is something I’ve wanted to do for years— since I’m entirely on-the-job taught,