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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Subversion 1.5 will include merge tracking
07.08.07 - 10:30am
Despite Linus’ strident criticism of Subversion (in the 70 minute video he accuses Subversion, and then anybody who wrote it, and then anybody who likes it, of being ugly and stupid) I still use Subversion and I like it. Clearly compared to Linus I am ugly and stupid. OK fine. But I’m not switching to […]
Impressions of Ruby on Rails from an ex J2EE developer (me)
07.05.07 - 11:20pm
A friend who is working primarily in the J2EE technology world (as I was, until early 2006) asked me for a how’s-it-going with respect to Ruby and Rails.
The short version:
- Ruby is fun to program in, as you’ve probably heard
- Rails is over-hyped, but it’s still quite good (definitely not perfect)
- I like the productivity […]
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 […]
Hacking rake:stats to get gross LOC
06.28.07 - 01:05pm
Web App Autopsy has some juicy metrics such as the 100:10:1 ratio of anonymous visitors to free registered users to paying users. But they also have LOC counts which seem quite high, and which include things that rake:stats (a Rake task that’s part of Rails, which counts lines of source code and provides some basic […]