What is Quality Assurance?
During my time as a Quality Assurance Engineer, I would wind up explaining to curious people that what I did was more than just testing software. So, what is Quality Assurance if it’s not just...
View ArticlePrint Debug Information to Its Own Log
Setting up a Debug Log Have you ever been debugging your Rails application and watching the development log fly by wishing that you could put output just the information you need to its own log?...
View Article5 Reasons to do Test Driven or Behavior Driven Development
I’ve had a few discussions with people under various circumstances regarding Test First or Test Driven Development (TDD). Some people swear by TDD, while other don’t see how it could possibly work...
View ArticleAn Easy 5 Step Process for Test Driven Development
A lot of people try Test Driven Development by writing the test, writing the code, and then wondering what the big deal is. Here’s the process I follow along with an explanation of why each step helps....
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What are Ruby Symbols?
A lot of new Ruby developers I’ve worked with have seen the symbol notation—starting with a :— and have been confused by what a symbol actually is. There is a lot of information out there that is...
View ArticleMore ActiveRecord Notes
I started reading ActiveRecord::Base a few days ago and found 8 things that I didn’t know about that it offered. I also only made it about 1/4 of the way through the code. Here are a few new things...
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