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Different services I can suggest when a non-tech friend or family member asks me how they can cheaply make a website and possibly use it to sell stuff online.

Website Hosting

• Squarespace
• Tumblr
• Wordpress
• Harmony
• Virb

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Expectations

I took the ideas presented here and built a gem called Mustard. Check it out!

There are several expectation/assertion interfaces available for writing tests/specs. Here are some issues I have with them.

Test::Unit/MiniTest

• The order of assert_equals feels backwards
• Oh wait, that should be assert_equal (that too)

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This example is not my real app, but it's modeled pretty closely to it.

My mom schedules a couple hundred employees at a local warehouse. In their system, a worker can earn "points" for being late or missing shifts. Here we have a sort of summary screen for my mom, who may need to follow up with new employees or discipline employees with concerning levels of points.

Questions that arise as I code something like this:

• Which objects deserve presenters?

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# COMMUNITY CHALLENGE
#
# How would you test this Quiz#problem method? Only two rules:
#
# 1. The tests should fail if any part of the application breaks.
#    For example: If "gets" is moved before "puts" then the tests should
#    fail since that breaks the application.
#
# 2. You cannot change the Quiz class. But you can use whatever framework
#    and tools you want for the tests. (RSpec, Cucumber, etc.)

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001-caching-with-instance-variables
002-dynamic-find-by-methods
003-find-through-association
004-move-find-into-model
005-using-with-scope
006-shortcut-blocks-with-symbol-to-proc
007-all-about-layouts
008-layouts-and-content-for
009-filtering-sensitive-logs
010-refactoring-user-name-part-1

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class TasksController < ApplicationController
  def update
    tracker = TaskTracker.new(@task)
    if @task.update_attributes(params[:task])
      TaskPusher.new(tracker, socket_id).push_changes
      TaskMailSender.new(tracker, current_user).deliver_email
      # success response
    else
      # failure respond
    end

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cd ~/code/rails
railties/bin/rails new ~/code/hello --edge
cd ~/code/hello
echo "gem 'puma'" >> Gemfile
bundle
rails g controller hello index
# fill controller
puma
# separate tab
curl localhost:9292/hello/index

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# add this to your spec helper
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.treat_symbols_as_metadata_keys_with_true_values = true
  config.filter_run :focus => true
  config.run_all_when_everything_filtered = true
end

# and then use the :focus tag in your specs

it "does something awesome", :focus do

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# Add this to your spec_helper.rb
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.treat_symbols_as_metadata_keys_with_true_values = true
  config.around(:each, :vcr) do |example|
    name = example.metadata[:full_description].downcase.gsub(/\W+/, "_").split("_", 2).join("/")
    VCR.use_cassette(name, :record => :new_episodes) do
      example.call
    end
  end
end

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>RailsCasts</string>
	<key>settings</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>settings</key>