Using Cucumber and Rspec for the first time has been … a little frustrating. I followed along with the main tutorial in The Rspec Book and then skimmed the later chapters. I thought it was quite good until I had to start testing an actual rails app and felt a little at a loss. But I digress … (more…)
I haven’t been using mysql much for my rails projects in favor of postgres, but in doing some tutorials on haml and sass I needed mysql in order to follow the tutorials exactly. After adding the mysql2 gem to my Gemfile, I got this error when running rake db:create: (more…)
We’ve all been hearing a lot about Heroku lately. In fact, it seems that almost every rails blog has a post about how you “must use Heroku!’ or you’re an idiot to not using Heroku.
Over the last month or so, I’ve been working on a project hosted on Heroku. Now this app has a lot of issues including code written by a billion developers that is often stupid or redundant and inconsistent staging and production code, schema, and data. Needless to say, the project has been frustrating at times and most of the reasons for that had nothing at all to do with Heroku.
However, as the progress has been made there have been issues with Heroku that have cropped up and a couple of them have turned into deal breakers for me. (more…)
In a moment of genuine unintended irony, I decided to start learning Rails at the exact moment that a huge uproar happened over a conference presentation that contained pornographic images and the following “don’t hamper my freedom from expression/to look at naked chicks” response from much of the Rails community. Worse yet, DHH, creator of Rails and partner in 37 Signals, condoned the talk. (more…)
