If you want real end-to-end testing of a page with functioning AJAX, use Selenium. But I was interested in doing just a bit of JS speccing to make sure that the AJAX routes I called worked and that the data that came back fit the JS that I had written.
So, I figured with a little and a little , I could test my javascript with real route calls. Let’s check it out.
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I attended and spoke at Windy City Rails. I tried to take more notes this time. Out of 6 talks an lightning talks, I have ~500 lines of notes. Enjoy!.
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I attended and spoke at Ruby Hoedown 2010. Below are my notes from the conference.
I recently attended and spoke at Lone Star Ruby Conf 2010. I took notes on anything technical I thought would be useful to bring back and use day-to-day at SmartLogic. Keep in mind there were many excellent talks that aren’t on this list, it’s just a snippet of things I wanted to look into more.
I had a bit of trouble installing the latest PostGIS 1.5 under PostgreSQL 8.4. Here are my instructions. These work on Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10.
SSHing into remote servers can be an awkward experience, but it doesn’t have to be. You can turn your ssh console into a terminal-style window manager with Byobu, and get more system information via landscape.
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Do you do this:
class ModelsController < ApplicationController before_filter :find_model def show end def destroy @model.destroy end private def find_model @model = Model.find_by_id(params[:id]) unless @model redirect_to :action => :index flash[:error] = "Invalid model id" return false end end end
in every controller? Gets repetitive doesn’t it?
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I recently boosted my rails test suite running time by around 30% by adding certain mount options for my ext4 partition (works for ext3 too). I thought I’d blog about it because the first time I tried my system wouldn’t boot! So here are the step by step instructions:
Today we’re going to look at how to find the number of unique sessions over a specific time frame for a rails application. We’ll be using the gem.
has a great post to get you started with for Ruby on Rails.
I wanted to preview my HTML emails without having to fill up my online email inboxes with tons of email (and then I’d have to make filters too). I also didn’t want to manage actually sending real email. So, I set up my machine for local delivery. Read on for instructions.
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