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Hello, I''m scheduled to give a rspec brown bag this Wednesday (11/22) for my company (Pivotal Computer Systems, http://www.pivotalsf.com). I did see Dave Astel''s talk as well as several of my coworkers. The developers at my workplace are experienced Agile developers. What would be some good things to focus on for this brown bag? Are there slides to presentations that would be

...t and SuccessfulArticleCreate, because each of those represent different contexts, or fixtures. I''m quite keen on Ben Griffiths'' testing approach outlined here<http://www.reevoo.com/blogs/bengriffiths/2005/06/24/a-test-by-any-other-name/>and have also been looking into Dave Astels'' RSpec <http://rspec.rubyforge.org/> and have to agree with the idea of testcases being bound by fixtures. If you have test methods that require common setups, the code should be extracted to the setup method. If you have different groups of methods using two different types of setup...

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<http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10368> Came across this as a stub page browsing Amazon UK. This is good news! I''m surprised it hasn''t been discussed on the list before. Was Chad keeping it a secret? I hope it will have plenty of BDD theory. I''m still waiting for that magic book I can give to someone and say "here - read this, it

I sent this earlier under with the subject "artificial sugar causes cancer" and I think some spam filters ate it. Here it is again: ====================================== All, If you look at http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=6760&group_id=797&atid=3149 you''ll see that Chad (the submitter) found the source of the bug. Unfortunately, the source

...y/index.html. == Numbers and facts * 16000 Downloads (ranked 31 on Rubyforge) * 40 contributors (bugfixes and patches) * 2000 svn commits * 890,000 Google hits for rspec+ruby * 100% coverage * 100% Self-describing == The RSpec Development Team is David Chelimsky Aslak Helles?y Brian Takita Dave Astels Steve Baker (the original author)

It seems to me that the RSpec bundle''s ''it'' snippet is in need of some love. By default, a newly inserted spec passes. This seems odd as it is misleading. It also makes it harder find what specs still need to be completed if you return to an RSpec module after a break. I propose that the ''it'' snippet is changed to the following: it

First I recognize that these questions might be straying a little from the scope of this mailing list, but I haven''t been able to find a more appropriate venue; if anyone can point me to a better venue, I''d be very appreciative. I''ve been using two of the ZenTest addons -- autotest and Test::Rails -- and I''ve been running into a few problems as well as

Hi, all, This isn''t about rspec, but this list has people whose opinions I respect. So, I''m looking for a new version control system for my local development. I was going to install subversion, but I''ve heard rumors of people using some newer ones. Thoughts? I''d like to be able to run it either locally or on a home server. If I run it off a home server, then

Twice in the past week (when things have previously been fine for a year), a server has locked up spewing forth a continuous stream of ext3 write errors. This is to a bog-standard IDE disk, only thing on the controller, etc. Nothing EVER hits the logs. Not a single error. Every process that accesses the disk seems to fail. It looks like ext3 is failing every I/O request. If the machine is

Hi, in our setup, we have a number of AD domains with an exisiting one-way trust between the local domain of the system (which I will call LOCALDOM in the following) and the domain containing the user accounts (which I will call TRUSTEDDOM in the following). The domain controllers run Windows Server 2012. Beginning with samba 4.4 we have an issue with authentication through pam_winbind on the

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Suppose we have a method ''foo'' which internally uses another method ''bar''. Being good BDDers we mock out the ''bar'' method. After all, we only want to spec the ''foo'' method - actually running the ''bar'' method means slower, less maintainable and brittler specs. That''s why we <3 mocking,

Hi all, I''ve been thinking about the whole validator/relationship speccing issue, and I came up with a suggestion, which I''d love to get some feedback on. The full article is available at http://www.inter-sections.net/ 2007/10/19/what-to-test-and-specify-and-where-to-do-it/ , with the relevant bit being about halfway down, but here''s the gist of it: 1.

Hello, In my app, I''d like to test two model object objects that interact with each other. (In my example, a Person can have Contributions.) I guess you could say that I''m testing ActiveRecord associations. For example, a Person has zero or many Contributions. A Contribution has one or more People. This is the very basic version, but I think it will illustrate the

Hi to everyone, I''m an RSpec, and BDD in general, newbie so in order to learn I have chosen to use my personal website as a tesbed. I''m having difficulties juggling with mocks, and in particula with the following code. Here''s the controller action: def create @album = Album.new(params[:album]) if @album.save flash[:notice] = "album saved"

Hi folks, Can anyone share some accumulated wisdom about the best way to spec mixins in general, and (Jamis Buck-style) ActiveRecord "concerns" in particular? The standard situation here is that there''s a bunch of functionality, related by concept if not by implementation, that one wants to inherit in many different classes (e.g. ActiveRecord models) without having to

This is pretty much the same as last time around, if you recall. Thanks to Wilson for converting to the new form. I''ve added a few lines. Basically, it iterates over your model associations and does two things. - First, just try to call the association. Usually fixes speeling erors or other such silliness. - Second, try to find a record with an :include on the association. This

Hi, This msg for Chad Fowler or anyone who fits the subject line. I bought the Recipes book and really like the way it has been progressing. There is one subject I''d like to see explored in detail. Having come from Assembly and C background I find that a ''must have'' tool in your collection is the debugger. I find debugging a Rails App the most thorny issue inversely

hypothetical question for all you BDD experts: I want to make sure that a :list action always returns widgets in alphabetical order. There''s at least 2 ways of doing this: it "should fetch items in alphabetical order" do Widget.should_receive(:find).with(:order => "name ASC") get :list end it "should fetch items in alphabetical order" do [:red,