http://www.rubycorner.com en Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:43 GMT Last updated blogs at RubyCorner http://freelancing-gods.com/posts/using_thinking_sphinx_with_cucumber http://freelancing-gods.com/posts/using_thinking_sphinx_with_cucumber While I highly recommend you stub out your search requests in controller unit tests/specs, I also recommend you give your full stack a work-out when running search scenarios in Cucumber. This has gott... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:43 GMT pat http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jayfields/mjKQ/~3/VdUKrdFxPlc/pairing-isnt-solution.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jayfields/mjKQ/~3/VdUKrdFxPlc/pairing-isnt-solution.html In 2007 & 2008 I wrote several blog entires on Pair Programming (tagged with pair programming). Pair programming solved a lot of problems for me: knowledge transfer, mentoring, code review, etc. I... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:24:21 GMT jay http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2010/03/11/toward-a-godaddy-free-life http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2010/03/11/toward-a-godaddy-free-life Ask ten geeks who their favorite domain registrar is, and you’ll get ten answers -- though I doubt GoDaddy would be one of them. Their heavily-ad-filled, upselling, confusing site makes even the mos... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:28:43 GMT Nick Sieger http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2010/03/11/agile-success-series-menlo-innovations/ http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2010/03/11/agile-success-series-menlo-innovations/ Robert Dempsey talks with Richard Sheridan, the CEO of Menlo Innovations, about his experience developing Agile teams, and building Menlo Innovations from the ground up to be an Agile organization. If... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:32:30 GMT Robert Dempsey http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/specing-cucumber-step-definitions.html http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/specing-cucumber-step-definitions.html Testing your tests is kind of crazy. However when writing a library of Cucumber step definitions which will be used in many projects it started to make sense to test my tests. The step definitions ar... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:15:35 GMT Joseph Wilk http://hivelogic.com/articles/twins/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/twins/ A screenshot taken during the taping of The Conversation earlier today. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:07:05 GMT Hivelogic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/garrettmurray/log/~3/AKthPdtBQMs/439171520 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/garrettmurray/log/~3/AKthPdtBQMs/439171520 Shawn Morrison: Man... BBQ, guns, why don't you just live in Texas? Me: It's a valid question. Shawn Morrison: Plus, you'd finally get to wear that suede suit with "Don't mess with Texas" branded to t... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:05 GMT garrettmurray http://blog.codesherpas.com/on_the_path/2010/03/min-limit-95-ahead.html http://blog.codesherpas.com/on_the_path/2010/03/min-limit-95-ahead.html How would you like to see that sign on a nice stretch of highway? Given the right car and the right conditions, it would make getting to your destination a snap. While we will never see road rules lik... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:49:01 GMT bokmann http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fallenrogue/~3/HhosaQBHuiQ/439007809 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fallenrogue/~3/HhosaQBHuiQ/439007809 mnmal: designeriphone: “Good design means never having to say “Click Here”. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:57:26 GMT fallenrogue http://www.crazyorgenius.com/articles/2010/03/10/guest-blogging-east-coast-by-choice/ http://www.crazyorgenius.com/articles/2010/03/10/guest-blogging-east-coast-by-choice/ Recently, my twitter friend Kimberly, writer of EastCoastByChoice, contributor to Undeathmatch, and all around interesting person was soliciting guest posts for EastCoastByChoice. Given that people of... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:35:31 GMT Sean http://www.railsmine.net/2010/03/rubyist-links-2010-03-10.html http://www.railsmine.net/2010/03/rubyist-links-2010-03-10.html Ruby Nation Smart HTTP Transport Making Ruby Fast: The Rubinius JIT Bundler Changelog RailsConf 2010 Call For Proposals XSS Protection in Rails 3 Use the Cucumber Rejex - the JavaScript regular expres... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:12:48 GMT Aji http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/03/10/michael-fogus-talks-to-rubylearnings-clojure-course-participants/ http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/03/10/michael-fogus-talks-to-rubylearnings-clojure-course-participants/ On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Mich... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:35:21 GMT IndianGuru http://peepcode.com/products/cucumber http://peepcode.com/products/cucumber The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your applic... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:58:41 GMT RubyCorner's Admin http://peepcode.com/products/cucumber http://peepcode.com/products/cucumber The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your applic... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:58:41 GMT topfunky http://www.kenliu.net/2010/03/google-chrome-extensions-first-impressions.html http://www.kenliu.net/2010/03/google-chrome-extensions-first-impressions.html This weekend I spent some time playing around with the Google Chrome Extensions API (aka plugin API). I've been kicking some ideas around for a browser plugin, and I thought I would take a look to see... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:17:30 GMT Ken Liu http://www.wetware.co.nz/blog/2010/03/postgis-psqlostgis-error-could-not-load-library-usrlibpostgresql8-4libpostgis-1-5-so/ http://www.wetware.co.nz/blog/2010/03/postgis-psqlostgis-error-could-not-load-library-usrlibpostgresql8-4libpostgis-1-5-so/ Trying to install PostGIS and you can’t get past this error? psqlostgis.sql:57: NOTICE:  type “spheroid” is not yet defined DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition. psqlostgis.sql:57: ERROR:... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:46:18 GMT Jordan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/pDAd67kB7mw/how-to-find-ruby-user-groups-3067.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/pDAd67kB7mw/how-to-find-ruby-user-groups-3067.html Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share ideas, and, often, to have some fun. If you'... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:33:49 GMT Peter Cooper http://aeondust.com http://aeondust.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:24:21 GMT eeby http://neilmiddleton.com/2010/03/09/ack-not-working-in-textmate/ http://neilmiddleton.com/2010/03/09/ack-not-working-in-textmate/ I had an issue recently whereby Ack in my Textmate install would just hang with a spinner, yet still work just fine from the command line. After some digging it transpires that this is related to me i... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:31:41 GMT Neil Middleton http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fiatdev/~3/LL-cPepf960/toland http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fiatdev/~3/LL-cPepf960/toland Pro Git - Smart HTTP Transport Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT Phillip Toland