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Featured on the JRuby blog
Hey y'all this is a bit outdated, but I figured it should be posted here anyway. Me + Gracious Eloise were featured on the JRuby blog. Check it out here!
The Power of JRuby
I hesitated about using JRuby at first. I spend days beefing up on Java, which I hadn't used in years. Even though I had been using Ruby on Rails for about a year, I felt more intimidated by JRuby than going back to Java. To be fair, the project I was working on involved integrating with complicated, legacy code. I started from a place of FUD. It took me ...
Testing Jammit’s packaged assets with Jasmine
In my new job, I'm trying to start things out right -- behavior-driven, test-driven, "cutting-edge" tools (whatever the hell that means), etc. I've gone through the new Rspec book (review to come) and used Cucumber and Rspec on my Rails app. I recently re-did the front-end with Backbone.js (and I am ready to marry it) and now I'm testing the javascript with Jasmine ...
Debugging Cucumber in RubyMine {Quick Hit}
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…)
Quick Hit: Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.16.dylib
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…)