Aug 9, 2010: I Shouda Seen This Coming
Book Status The Shoulda chapter is draft complete, after a slight restructuring to change the emphasis of the chapter, and a lot of syntax changes. My previous version of the chapter was written before Shoulda went in the direction of RSpec compatibility and so there were a lot of syntax changes that needed to be...
June 30, 2010: The Triumphant Return of the Monster Link Post
The end of the repair story At the end, a very positive experience with Apple support. The repair was free, done when they said it would be done, and all told, I spent less than fifteen minutes in the store between both halves of the visit. Plus, they replaced the top part of my pre-unibody...
June 16, 2010: What Shoulda We Do?
Top Story Thoughtbot talks about their plans for Shoulda moving forward. The big takeaway is that, while the context library will be separated out for use in Test::Unit, both Shoulda style and Shoulda effort will be focused on RSpec integration. I have some complicated thoughts about this one. I’m thrilled that Shoulda is being maintained...
June 14, 2010, Practice makes less imperfect
Still catching up on links. The PeepOpen review has morphed into a larger IDE/TextMate piece, hoping to finish that today. Book Status Still working on the renovated Style chapter, which will probably combine the chapters that are in the current Table of Contents as “Testing Style and Structure”, “Fix Slow Tests”, “Rcov”, and “Help! My...
Double Shot #545
If small children are going to wake me up early, I might as well post links.
Refinery – Another entry in the Rails CMS sweepstakes.
Make your shoulda tests faster with fast_context – Pratik offers a technique for speeding up shoulda if your setups are bulky.
CouchDB-Lucene, CouchDBX, and CouchRest – Not my cup of tea but perhaps...
How to Add Simple Permissions into Your Simple App. Also, Thoughtbot Rules!
In which I discuss how I added simple permissions into flightcontrolled.com an app I created and how cool clearance, shoulda, factory girl and paperclip are.

