Posts Tagged ‘rails’

Rails Konferenz 2009

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.
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iX Special - Web on rails - and meinkabinett.de

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 [...]

Give your tests some love - cruisecontrol.rb, rails, git, rcov, unit tests and cucumber

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 [...]

Cucumber, autotest and growl

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 [...]

braid - keep track of external git and svn repositories within a git repository

Attending Euruko 2009 was great! I recommend this conference to every ruby enthusiast. The authors auf braid held a flash talk and tried to demonstrate the power of braid. Unfortunately the didn’t manage to although they typed their commands incredibly fast
Back home I gave braid a try and this tool is great. Before [...]

Upgrading to rails 2.3.2

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 [...]

RailsWayCon in Berlin

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 [...]