NYC Standup 04/27/2011
Ask for Help "Brent and Kris asked if anyone had encountered an after_destroy callback being called twice?" Few suggestions were check that it was only one object being deleted, that there are no...
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Interesting Things Samantha and Sean found a Vim command called :cucumberunusedsteps which was useful for cleaning out unused steps. It didn't work with some more complicated regexes or steps called...
View ArticleNYC Standup 04/29/2011
Ask for Help "Sean asked about git rebase complaining about no changes?" The suggestion was that it was generally safe to just skip in this situation. Interesting Things Schubert pointed out an...
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Ask for Help "Has anyone used cucumber for code coverage? We're trying to find dead code." SimpleCov worked great for rspec, but when used with cucumber introduced a lot of timeouts. Interesting Things...
View Article[Standup][NYC] 6/5/2012
Help "What are the reasons for using to_s vs to_str vs to_string" Dave suggested to_string is for Java developers. Cathy will look into this more today and report back. Interesting Using jasmine's...
View Article[Standup][NYC] 6/7/2012
Interesting A pivot needed to set some data in the flash for the setup of a controller test and discovered the optional 3rd and 4th parameters for ActionController::TestCase::Behavior's get, put, post,...
View Article[Standup][NYC] 13th December 2012
Interestings git rebase --edit-todo As of git 1.8.0, git rebase learned "--edit-todo". This is something you can use to edit the todo list while in the middle of a rebase. For example, if you mark a...
View Article03/21/13: New York Standup
Interestings Backbonejs 1.0 is out Not a great deal of changes compared to 0.9x – mostly small behavior adjustments on Collection#set & Model#save. Upgrading instructions:...
View ArticleLicenseAudit improvements
Over the last couple of weeks myself and Alex Basson have been working on stabilising, and adding some new features to, LicenseAudit. Whilst we have a long way to go, we think we have a solid...
View ArticleLicenseAudit improvements
Over the last week, Abhinav and I have been working on some enhancements and cleanup of LicenseAudit. For those that don’t know, LicenseAudit is a tool to track bundler dependencies, and their...
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