tomas-stefano

Capybara Actions

# Anchor
click_link 'Save'

# Button
click_button 'awesome'

# Both above

ryansobol

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

gillien

//date formatting
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.TimeZone;

//http request
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;

mkuklis

namespace :mongo do

  def confirm(message)
    print "\n#{message}\nAre you sure? [y/n] "
    # STDIN is not supported on heroku :/
    raise 'Aborted' unless STDIN.gets.chomp == 'y'
  end

  desc "gets database"
  task :db => :environment do