Long time no serious news in my blog. I apologize for that and hopefully I have for time in the future to write about new and cool ruby and rails stuff. Until then here is some news on ZenTest, autotest and growl integration for ruby on rails projects.
I wrote about this setup and the things [...]
On October 2nd and 3rd RubyFoo London 2009 is happening. According to the speakers table I think this is going to be a good conference.
As I am one of the leaders of the ruby user group Karlsruhe I am proud to announce a 10%-off promotion code for anyone interested going to RubyFoo.
The promotion code: RUGKarlsruhe_RubyFoo
The [...]
On September 2nd Rails Konferenz 2009 is happening in Frankfurt / Main (Germany). This year I made a request for a talk and I got it.
My topic is “Testing with cucumber”. As it is every year I believe the conference is going to be well attended and the talks will be great.
Find more information [...]
On Monday, June 8th a new iX magazine special was published. I wrote an article together with Marcus Schiesser on rich clients. The goal was to show how easy it is to combine ruby on rails and ExtJS.
This is my first publication and I’m little bit proud of it The magazine covers a lot [...]
Long time passed since I wrote my last blog post. Things happened and I was very busy. But now I have some news to write about.
Refactoring my current project mysedcard.tv produced a bunch of cucumber features. Those are great and I love to see them running in my console. But that can’t be enough so [...]
Using cucumber and bdd is just fun. Shoulda have used it earlier … Sorry, I need to write that
When you use cucumber (at the beginning) you always have to run
cucumber features
in your console to run all your features. Or you specify one by running
cucumber features/session.feature
There are some more ways but have a look [...]
Before today I was running on rails 2.2.2, but now I need the new rails engine feature so I had to upgrade.Ok, I would have to anyway
It wasn’t that hard.
sudo gem install rails
and renaming application.rb to application_controller.rb did everything required for my development environment. I use hoptoad for error aggregation in production, so [...]
Since my first steps with rails I was used to write rspec tests / specifications. I was never that happy about it. Can’t say exactly why. I think it was just a “personal” thing. About two weeks ago I finally gave shoulda and his buddies a try. So here’s what I have done.
Installation
First I had [...]
Since I set up a rake task which dumps my production database on the server and pipes it through a ssh connection into my local mysql server I had to recognize encoding problems locally. Today I said to myself: “Stop that encoding foo and get this crappy shit running correctly”
After struggling around with server side [...]
Update: check out Karlsruhes’ ruby and rails usergroup for a free ticket sponsored by Software & Support Media!!
RailsWayCon is taking place end of May (25th - 27th) organized by Software & Support Media. As the O’Reilly Rails Conf Europe is not happening in 2009 they helped out a set up this conference for the [...]
