RCOV C0 line coverage more generous than EMMA’s C1 line coverage
07.11.07 - 01:26pm
Coverage tests in Ruby (with rcov) are less strict than in Java (with EMMA), so watch out - 100% coverage is easy to attain but not as meaningful.
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Removing framework clutter from autotest failure stacktraces
06.29.07 - 02:39am
If you’re programming in Ruby, then in the list of “should be’s” is “using autotest“, assuming you’re doing automated testing, which of course is a giant “should be”. One problem if you’re using a bunch of gems or Rails is that their code works and yours is broken but the failure stacktraces you’re reading contain […]
First Rails gotcha: Rails doesn’t tear down fixture data
05.23.07 - 12:38pm
Rails doesn’t delete loaded fixtures in the tear down phase of tests, but it does delete and re-insert the fixtures you do use at the beginning of tests. This is a serious problem if you use foreign keys.
This issue is covered in the Rails issue tracker here: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2404
Ruby Deeper Impressions
03.18.07 - 09:20pm
For two weeks (ending on this past Wednesday afternoon), most of my days and nights were occupied with a self-administered crash course in the Ruby programming language, outside of the Rails framework. I had struggled somewhat with Objective-C in January, partly because of the massive combined burden of learning the language, the Cocoa framework, the […]
Ruby First Impressions: Backup Scripting
03.04.07 - 12:09am
I started programming in Ruby this week, and so far I like it a lot. From my initial use of Ruby as a backup automation scripting language, here are my thoughts.
You might be wondering, why am I working on backup scripting now? Don’t I have some big project I’m supposed to be working on 24/7? […]