While I highly recommend you stub out your search requests in controller unit tests/specs, I also recommend you give your full stack a work-out when running search scenarios in Cucumber. This has gott...

In 2007 & 2008 I wrote several blog entires on Pair Programming (tagged with pair programming). Pair programming solved a lot of problems for me: knowledge transfer, mentoring, code review, etc. I...

Ask ten geeks who their favorite domain registrar is, and you’ll get ten answers -- though I doubt GoDaddy would be one of them. Their heavily-ad-filled, upselling, confusing site makes even the mos...

Robert Dempsey talks with Richard Sheridan, the CEO of Menlo Innovations, about his experience developing Agile teams, and building Menlo Innovations from the ground up to be an Agile organization. If...

Testing your tests is kind of crazy. However when writing a library of Cucumber step definitions which will be used in many projects it started to make sense to test my tests. The step definitions ar...

A screenshot taken during the taping of The Conversation earlier today.

Shawn Morrison: Man... BBQ, guns, why don't you just live in Texas? Me: It's a valid question. Shawn Morrison: Plus, you'd finally get to wear that suede suit with "Don't mess with Texas" branded to t...

How would you like to see that sign on a nice stretch of highway? Given the right car and the right conditions, it would make getting to your destination a snap. While we will never see road rules lik...

mnmal: designeriphone: “Good design means never having to say “Click Here”.

Recently, my twitter friend Kimberly, writer of EastCoastByChoice, contributor to Undeathmatch, and all around interesting person was soliciting guest posts for EastCoastByChoice. Given that people of...

Ruby Nation Smart HTTP Transport Making Ruby Fast: The Rubinius JIT Bundler Changelog RailsConf 2010 Call For Proposals XSS Protection in Rails 3 Use the Cucumber Rejex - the JavaScript regular expres...

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Mich...

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your applic...

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your applic...

This weekend I spent some time playing around with the Google Chrome Extensions API (aka plugin API). I've been kicking some ideas around for a browser plugin, and I thought I would take a look to see...

Trying to install PostGIS and you can’t get past this error? psqlostgis.sql:57: NOTICE:  type “spheroid” is not yet defined DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition. psqlostgis.sql:57: ERROR:...

Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share ideas, and, often, to have some fun. If you'...

I had an issue recently whereby Ack in my Textmate install would just hang with a spinner, yet still work just fine from the command line. After some digging it transpires that this is related to me i...

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