In some part of my code I ended writing the following: where self is some ActiveRecord model, and count_processed is an attribute of that model (and stored in the database). What am i trying to achieve (if it is not blatantly obvious): if count_processed is not initialised, make it zero increment count_processed Imho this code [...]
I had an issue where I was not sure the ActiveRecord::SessionStore was actually working (in hindsight: it worked). But to make sure, I needed to know what was stored in the session or retrieved. Now all logging for the session-store is silenced, using Base.silence. Now I was very interested in that logging, and did not [...]
Assume you have, like I did, a ruby gem that contains some javascript you want to test standalone. First you need to install the jasmine-gem. You have two options: either you use your gemspec to drive your bundler gemfile, so just add it to your developement dependencies I am still using jeweler, so I use [...]
In our Rails 3 application we use mongo to store logging of critical actions. At first we did not store a separate timestamp, since the _id (which is a BSON::ObjectId contains a timestamp as well. Our model, simplified, looked like this: This is all fine and dandy, but when we wanted to build some reporting, [...]
Doing a simple group-by query using mongo and mongoid is actually pretty straightforward. According to the documentation, mongoid does not offer any group/aggregation function itself, but mongo does. And you can directly access the mongo using the collection. So assume we have a mongo collection: and now I want to count all occurrences of the [...]
I have created a few rails 3 sites, but i have never before ported an existing rails2 application to rails3. I will describe the problems i encountered. First off there were some very good resources (step-by-step descriptions) to guide me through it: the rails_upgrade plugin The asciicast (readable) upgrading to rails3 part 1 and part [...]
The fourth and most international of all arrrrcamp editions. Also the first paying edition. As i said in my post about the previous edition, i have been to all editions, and it is awesome to see how it has grown. The schedule was amazing, with an amazing array of international speakers, of which for me [...]
I am developing several rails projects. Some are still rails 2.3.9, and some are rails3. But using those at the same time, on the same machine can cause some trouble. I use bundles for all my projects, so the gem dependencies are managed. But still, somehow, when running my tests, i get into trouble. If [...]
Read “Pure Rspec”, a great slideshow by Jon “Lark” Larkowski. It contains some really cool rspec tips and hints, how to write your tests more readable and compact.
I found a few articles that describe easier ways to create a gem. From the entire list of available tools, i want to highlight two: jeweler and (Mr.) bones. Mr. bones seems a very configurable route to take: it allows you to define your own skeletons (application templates) or use those of others, e.g. bort. [...]
