Mock and roll

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.

Rails security exploit: lessons learnt

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.

Rails security exploit: lessons to learn.

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 [...]

Ruby on Rails popularity

Even seasoned IT professionals occasionally give blank stares when I tell them that we program in ruby, using ruby on rails. What with a recent endorsement from Martin Fowler and this graph – spotted on Jason Huggins’ blog – it seems that ruby and rails are truly gaining the popularity they deserve.

A test by any other name

RubyOnRails comes with built-in support for unit and functional testing – great for us test-driven development whackos. In a new rails application we’re developing, we used the excellent salted hash login generator to kick off the development of our site’s authentication. The login generator ships with tests – yippee! Since it’s a widely used extension [...]