My colleague, James Mead, has just released a new version of his mocha stubbing and mocking library for ruby. This one features rspec compatability and auto-verification of assertions. Go and get it and start ridding your rails code of fixtures right now.

Excellent progress on the ruby on rails weblog just now moving the security hole issue forward in an unemotive, measured, factual and constructive way. We’re thanked for our patience, but still no sorry? Only kidding… Well done chaps, much better.

So the Rails chaps have had their first crisis. And, they’ve not handled it too badly – believe me I’ve done worse – but the response still left a little to be desired. So, rather than join in with the angry commenters on their blog posts (with whom I broadly agree) I thought it better [...]