Tip #16 - Valid Models Don't Have to be Hard

May 12th, 2008

If you are using BE DE DE or TE DE DE, then you will get situations in your specs or tests where you want to be able to just create a valid model of another type to test against. This is where factories and builders come in handy.

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Saving TMail into an ActiveRecord model

November 23rd, 2007

ActiveRecord works well when we are saving strings and integers, but what if you want to save a real, live, honest-to-God Ruby OBJECT like a TMail::Mail instance?? Well.. serialize to the rescue!

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Keep RSpec Current

November 17th, 2007

I like living on the edge with RSpec. It actually is not so bad. Every week or so I do an update on the trunk, but this is a few steps that should be automated, this is how you do it.

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RSpec Textmate Bundle Troubles

November 16th, 2007

I love RSpec, I love textmate… but sometimes… they just don’t love each other…

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Why use lambda in RSpec?

November 15th, 2007

RSpec allows you to write nice readable tests… and some little tricks make it even nicer! And I don’t know about you, but the word lambda is (1) ugly, (2) means basically bugger all and (3) is hard to pronounce late at night… so lets replace it!

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