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Sheel Choksi

12/06/12: Prove your mohawk

Sheel Choksi
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Interestings

Regex for Unicode

Ruby 1.9 regexs can match Unicode Categories . Not filtering out Joƫlle in your validations has never been so easy (/p{L}/)!

Events

12/14: Railsbridge at Pivotal next weekend

Railsbridge is a monthly-ish workshop to teach programming, primarily focused at women.

December’s Railsbridge event will be at Pivotal SF on December 14-15.

All you pivots in the office know tons about Ruby and Rails. Please come to the workshop to spread your knowledge and be awesome!

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Jordi Noguera

12/05/12: Uninteresting (aka no-interestings) wednesday

Jordi Noguera
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Helps

Test driving contenteditable?

I want to TDD contenteditable, where a DT element can be changed and it’s underlying resource receives an PUT. Is this even possible?

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Jordi Noguera

12/03/12: Q&A day

Jordi Noguera
Monday, December 3, 2012

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Switching to git+ssh urls over https urls in our Gemfile made deploys much faster.

Today’s github outage drove us to try ssh urls instead of the https urls we were using. A pleasant speed improvement in deployment time resulted.

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Arjun Sharma

11/30/12: I still believe in your mustache, McGinley

Arjun Sharma
Friday, November 30, 2012

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mock.as_null_object doesn’t do what it says it does

The comments in the implementation suggest that it will respond to every message that isn’t explicitly stubbed with self, but there are some exceptions. Ones we found:

  • nil? # returns false
  • class? # returns RSpec::Mocks::Mock
  • present? # returns false, since blank? returns self, and !self is false
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Charles Hansen

Standup 11/29/12: Time.now, more like Time.at(2011)

Charles Hansen
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Helps

mock object nil when it shouldn’t be

(rdb:1) @registration

RSpec::Mocks::Mock:0x3fda7eabfd68 @name=”mocked registration”

(rdb:1) @registration.present?
false
(rdb:1) @registration.nil?
false

  • mock objects don’t always define nil? or present?

Interestings

David Chelimsky handing off rspec

David Chelmisky is stepping down as the RSpec lead after 6+ years. http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2012/11/28/myron-marston-and-andy-lindeman-are-rspecs-new-project-leads/

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Charles Hansen

Standup 11/28/12: Mohawk Day!

Charles Hansen
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Helps

Request log output in controller specs

We are getting info level log out put when running our specs from the controller examples. I don’t know how they are getting turned on nor how to turn them off

  • Crickets

default host when using url helpers in regular classes

How do most projects handle the default host for url helpers when the helper is being included in presentation classes etc?

  • Pass your controller to your presenter and ask the controller for url helpers

making rspec2 custom example groups

any one know how to define custom example groups in rspec and associate them with specs in a given folder.

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Arjun Sharma

11/27/12: T-1 Day Until Mohawkvember

Arjun Sharma
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Interestings

Tech in the World

Joshua Lee, a Summer ’12 intern in San Francisco, has co-founded Tech in the World, an initiative to expose top computer science students to underserved needs in developing communities.

Please visit http://www.techintheworld.org/ and consider supporting Joshua and his team.

Events

Tuesday: Tech Talk – Craig Muth on Xiki

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Charles Hansen

Standup 11/26/12

Charles Hansen
Monday, November 26, 2012

Interestings

dotenv Gem

Have you tried this gem? It kind of rocks it. Works great with a Heroku development environment. It even has files for different Rails modes, e.g. .env.test

https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv

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Aaron Levine

‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving

Aaron Levine
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Interestings

Binding and CapybaraWebkit

If you have seemingly random undefined is not a function in your Capybara Webkit specs, checkout your binding of event handlers. The native bind doesn’t like to work in CW, so try Underscore’s instead.

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Aaron Levine

[Standup][SF] 11/19/12: Mustache Duck Tape

Aaron Levine
Monday, November 19, 2012

Helps

I have mustache duck tape

(DWF )

Interestings

What does "".constantize do?

Return Object of course

JUnit 4.11

Finally fixes the hamcrest dependency conflict.
Roboelctric users BEWARE: See the recent mailing list thread “Setup for non-maven” users if you are going to upgrade.

Events

Monday: Lunch video(s): Destroy all software @ 12:40 in Titanium

(Alexander Murmann)

Monday: Conference speaking workshop practice

(Sarah Mei)

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