The Ruby Reflector

…Learned something new there. Honestly, I didn't expect this behavior, but I understand why. Shoulda read the docs.

Now, the easy way around this is to pass into a FactoryGirl.create/build/build_stubbed a nil for the association, if it is not needed. Ala:

FactoryGirl.build stubbed(:store, company: fg_company, area: nil)

Now it won't build out the associated area. Alas, I had forgotten just one of these nil associations. And at the worst possible relationship level, the bottom. …

• Topics: FactoryGirl, Arkansas, company, Store, Uh-oh
• giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source

…me a few hours yesterday.

Sextant: A Gem to Help you Find your Routes - A browser-based alternative to rake routes.

Rails Apps Composer version 1.5.0 - New release of a flexible recipe-based app generator.

polyamory - Test runner that understands Cucumber, RSpec, Shoulda, Test::Unit and more.

• Topics: Test, Safari, Gem, New, Portable Document Format
• Trevor Turk: Links for 5-17-11
• Ruby Inside: The Mega March 2012 Ruby and Rails News and Release Roundup
• MetaSkills.net: From Test::Unit & Shoulda To MiniTest::Spec & MiniShoulda
• thechrisoshow: Five tips for testing Rails
• giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
• Ruby Fleebie: Review of some testing tools for ruby

…testing your Rails applications, from Test::Unit to Mocha, Shoulda, Capybara, FactoryGirl, and more. Only thing it doesn't cover is RSpec (that course is next month).

Those two are the most important to play through to stop bad rails code, but it also wouldn't hurt to learn some CoffeeScript , Backbone.js , or maybe learn some CSS best practices that would make your designer friends happy. We even have CodeTV screencasts on using …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Code School, RSpec, Zombies, Debian GNU/Linux
• Adventures with Ruby: Getting the Most out of Bundler Groups
• Andrzej on Software: How we ended up organizing a Ruby conference
• Mike Perham: Five Common Rails Mistakes
• Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk
• Katz Got Your Tongue?: Tokaido: My Hopes and Dreams
• A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #829

We haven't been taking pull requests on shoulda-matchers as much as we shoulda, but it's back in the spotlight now. Shoulda's been gone ... but it's back.

Here are the new features in shoulda-matchers 1.1.0:

A NEWS file so you can track new hottness in REAL TIME

shoulda-matchers' very first dependency: ActiveSupport >= 3.0.0. This was an implicit dependency for a while, but now it's official.

An only_integer option for validates_numericality_of

• Topics: ActiveSupport, Database, GitHub

…Rspec and it's expressiveness, but dislike it's complexity. Finally, there it comes the Shoulda and find all the validation/association testing macros are really time savers.

As you can see, I stepped into Ruby 1.9 and find little information about a nice setup testing your ruby application in Ruby 1.9. Shoulda didn't work for me and found it wasn 't Ruby 1.9 ready at that time (couple months ago) and things may(or not) have got better.

It forced me to look for …

• Topics: Ruby, Rspec, Ruby on Rails, Debian GNU/Linux, TDD
• Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: How to write your very own RSpec formatter and have fun doing it
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• Comments on: blog: Link dump for October 9th through October 10th
• DevChix: Remote Pair-Programming
• Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.0: It's ready!
• thechrisoshow: A peek at the inner workings of Hashrocket

shoulda

Tom Milewski ( tmilewski ) added a new matcher to shoulda's matcher collection : should serialize , allowing you to quickly test serialized ActiveRecord fields. This was introduced in a3fa2f9 .

Blake Thomson, Mike Burns ( mike-burns ), and Gabe Berke-Williams ( gabebw ) fixed some development and testing issues to get the shoulda builds passing in 7660061 , d38edbd , and f9d5c63 …

• Topics: Mike Burns, ActiveRecord, Jon Yurek, Ruby, Joshua Clayton
• Ruby Fleebie: Review of some testing tools for ruby
• MetaSkills.net: From Test::Unit & Shoulda To MiniTest::Spec & MiniShoulda
• Engine Yard Developer Blog: fog 0.7.0, 0.6.0 and 0.5.0
• Viget.com Blogs: Paperclip Custom Interpolation
• Life at the Speed of Green: Cleaner RSpec/FactoryGirl Integration
• casperfabricius.com: Launch: bog.nu

From Test::Unit & Shoulda To MiniTest:: Spec & MiniShoulda

MiniTest: Ruby 1.9's Test Framework

MiniTest::Mock - the simple mocking system included in MiniTest.

Peter here! :-) I've been running an online course called Ruby Reloaded over the past couple of months for intermediate Ruby developers who want to revise the basics and pick up some new tricks. The next run will probably be in October or November so if you want to …

• Topics: MiniTest, Test, Ruby, Peter Cooper, FileList
• MetaSkills.net: From Test::Unit & Shoulda To MiniTest::Spec & MiniShoulda
• the { buckblogs :here } - Home: Sharing the Inheritance Hierarchy
• Blog - James Mead: Mocha Release 0.9.10
• The Majestic Sea Creature: Ruby Mendicant: Progress Report #9
• David Chelimsky: Rspec 2 and Rails 3
• RubyLearning Blog: Top 3 Posts for July 2011 on RubyLearning

wallsconcesandgreenshutters :

cartographymaps :

Schonberg & Co., 1865, Western U.S.A.

Shoulda kept it this way. Dacotanians do not deserve the 4 senators they have now.

• Topics: United States of America, Co.

Rails Test Prescriptions is a comprehensive guide to testing Rails applications, covering Test-Driven Development from both a theoretical perspective (why to test) and from a practical perspective (how to test effectively). It covers the core Rails testing tools and procedures for Rails 2 and Rails 3, and introduces popular add-ons, including Cucumber, Shoulda, Machinist, Mocha, and Rcov.

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Machinist, Cucumber, Noel Rappin, Rails Test Prescriptions
• Engine Yard Developer Blog: Zero to Rails 3 Virtual Training
• RubyLearning Blog: Ruby on Rails Engineer at Tupalo.com
• Ruby Inside: A Review of ‘The Rails 3 Way' by Obie Fernandez
• omgbloglol: Holy crap! I made $40,000 this year with my eBook. And you can, too.
• Mike Clark: Teaching iOS Development in Denver
• Scout ~ The Blog: Behind our financial dashboard

…comes with a simple MiniTest::Spec DSL that uses describe and it blocks much like Shoulda's context and should methods. The similarities were so close that I set out to move all my projects to MiniTest::Spec. The goal would be that none of my exiting suites context/should/before/after code would require a change. The result...

MiniShoulda

MiniShoulda is a small ruby gem that puts a Shoulda DSL on top of MiniTest::Spec. All it really does it alias a few key methods. …

• Topics: MiniTest, Test, RSpec, Cheat, Ruby
• Ruby Inside: A MiniTest::Spec Tutorial: Elegant Spec-Style Testing That Comes With Ruby
• Blog - James Mead: Mocha Release 0.9.10
• David Chelimsky: Rspec 2 and Rails 3
• Engine Yard Developer Blog: Lucky 13 Strikes (again)
• A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: Ruby Test::Unit sucks! (and why I still use it)
• Ruby Fleebie: Review of some testing tools for ruby