Interesting Things

• Branches + JsUnit + CI + IE = :-( : Apparently it is difficult to manage IE’s cache in CI. One project apparently has a bat file on CI that clears the cache every 30 minutes. Another team solved this by making the cache directory read only. Often browser/OS combinations have some technique for disabling caching.
• Test Swarm Alpha: this is a crowd sourced javascript testing solution (think seti@home for javascript testing) being developed by John Resig.

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“AR attribute appears to be skipped by text field helper?!” Apparently the model method is bypassed by the text field helper if a column of the same name is present in the underlying table. This was experienced in Rails 2.2.

Others have apparently experienced this in the past but a clear answer did not surface.