Articles tagged 'ruby'
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Hands-on With the Cucumber Events API
Cucumber Ruby 2.1 introduces the new Events API — a simple way to find out what’s happening while Cucumber runs your features. Events are read-only and simplify the process of writing formatters, and other output tools.
I’ll illustate how to use the API with a worked example that streams Cucumber...
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Your tests want you to change your design
I came across an interesting post by Brandon Hilkert looking at the differences between constructor and setter dependency injection. It’s a great introduction to the differences between the two, and his example illustrates them well. Please go and read it first.
Brandon’s example gets started when...
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Using charklock_holmes on Heroku
charlock_holmesis a useful gem if you have to deal with user supplied data which may come in a variety of text-encodings. Not only does it enable you to detect the encoding of a string, but it also allows you to transcode the string to a different encoding.
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Using `direnv` and `chruby` together
I’ve been using
chrubyto manage my ruby versions for a few months — I like it’s lightweight approach.A combination of bundler’s binstubs, the introduction of rails 4 introducing the
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Delegation is not inheritance
On the train home last night I watched the excellent Jim Weirich Play-by-play from PeepCode.
During the screencast Jim develops a library that “protects against unauthorized data model modification by users in less-privileged roles.” The screencast provides a great insight into the way Jim approaches...
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