Hello, old friend

It’s nice to see you again. One of the toughest part of writing for me is taking the time to actually write. An unfortunate side effect of running a company (for me anyway) is the sheer amount focus it demands in order to maintain the level of successful and serve my clients the best way I can.

A Guide for Writing Maintainable Rails Tests

Do you ever feel like you spend most of your day repairing tests in your Rails app? If you have been building Rails apps as long for as we have, then you know the importance of a robust test suite.

Minitest Quick Reference

UPDATE: I’ve added a new section on stubbing with MiniTest and a few helpful comments to the code samples. MiniTest, as the name suggests, is a small and fast unit testing framework.

Ruby Blocks as Dynamic Callbacks

Callbacks are a great technique for achieving simplicity and flexibility. Simply put, a callback is a block of code passed as an argument to a method.

Nyan Cat RSpec Formatter

I watch a lot of tests run in a given day. So I figured why not make it more fun. Inspired by minitest’s pride, and um cats? I came up with a Nyan Cat inspired RSpec formatter.

Gaga, A Git-Backed Key/Value Store

Gaga originated from my winning entry in Codebrawl’s Key/Value Store contest. The challenge was to write the best key/value storage backend you can think of.