Help:

• Testing blocks. If you have a block and you want to spy on the internals as it executes, what do you do? Suggestions were:
  • Have each method called internally throw a symbol and check for that.
  • Turn it into a proc, and set expectations on that.
  • Stub the methods being called internally and set expectations on those.
  • pass the block to a spy object.

Other suggestions welcome. The project is using rr, which apparently can't do this last option, though that would be ideal.

• Routes in Rails are case-sensitive? /products/1/edit and /Products/1/edit don't both resolve to the same place (unless you specify in routes.rb). Rumor has it that the RFC for URIs says that the path portion of a URL is case-sensitive, as opposed to the case-insensitive domain name.

If anyone wants to read through that document and confirm...feel free.

Help

• Latest Rails book? One pivot is coming back to Rails after several years away. Recommendations: The Rails Way, Rails Guides, Railscasts.

Interesting

• The on302 callback is a myth! One team discovered that if you set a 302 (redirect) callback for an AJAX call, like in Prototype, the redirect is followed by the browser and the callback is never called. Suggestions: hack the library so that if the response URL doesn't equal the request URL, call the on302. Or do that in your application Javascript.

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• One team is starting to use Sunspot and is curious about testing strategies. Sunspot provides a method that stubs out the backend, but search blocks aren't executed, so it's hard to test actual searching.

• Objective C needs a BDD framework. How does Xcode magically know about OCunit? We need to hook in there to have a usable framework.

Interesting

• Mountain West Ruby Conf was awesome.