Interesting Things

• Rails Gotcha: If you name a Rails Migration class the same name as an ActiveRecord class, you will get a non-obvious “superclass mismatch” error.
• Javascript: Date.now() is not supported by Internet Explorer! Firefox is fine. If you use Date.now(), the cryptic and maddening “Object does not support this property or method” will be your reward. Cross-browser solution: new Date().getTime().
• Brown Bag Lunch today: Rails performance testing.

Ask for Help

• “Any JQuery experts in the house?” Unfortunately not, since most of us have used the Rails-favored Prototype libraries.
• If anyone has unbiased hosting service recommendations we would love to hear them. We’ve used several companies with mixed results.
• Rspec: “Does Rspec support all of the various route testing helpers that Rails’ Test::Unit extensions has?“. We think the answer is “yes” because Rspec extends Test::Unit, but we’ll have to research that one.

Total Stand-up Meeting Time: 15:00 minutes