OpenMoko Freerunner first impressions
Posted by Jim Morris on 2008-07-11 13:53:11 +0000
OK so I just got my shiny new OpenMoko Freerunner GTA02.
This is an Open source GSM cell phone, running Linux and OpenMoko S/W stack.
... Show more ...XPath matchers for rspec
Posted by Jim Morris on 2008-01-02 13:32:50 +0000
I've been working on a project that is mostly Java for the last many months, so haven't had much Ruby or Rails stuff to share.
However one thing I found when working on my tests in Java was an xpath matcher for JUnit 4.0 using the Hamcrest libraries.
... Show more ...Bit Vector Preferences
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-08-07 23:53:09 +0000
In my latest web project I potentially have a lot of boolean preferences, which I use for enabling or disabling various email notifications to users.
Rather than having to add a migration everytime I want to add a new
preference, I thought I would use the composed_of feature in my model
and compose the boolean preferences from a bitvector. That way I can
simply modify my model to add new preferences rather than add new
columns to the database.
Paginating acts_as_taggable with will_paginate
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-07-30 15:04:50 +0000
A question I see asked a lot is how do I paginate acts_as_taggable (on steroids)?
I haven't seen any answers I liked, so I created my own, which I'm sure a few people won't like either ;) But it works for me (tm).
... Show more ...RSpec testing all actions of a controller
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-07-28 14:23:07 +0000
A pattern I find very helpful is to find all the actions in a controller and apply a test to all those actions.
For instance this is useful for automatically testing all actions are protected from unauthorized access when using a login system.
... Show more ...Using RSpec to test HAML helpers
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-07-14 16:44:33 +0000
UPDATED for HAML 2.0 and RSpec 1.1.5 - Changed open to haml_tag, prefix helper. to all rspec calls...
The most recent release of HAML introduced a neat feature that allows you to use HAML-like syntax in your helpers to generate HTML HAML#haml_tag.
... Show more ...RSpec testing views for escaped HTML
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-07-06 18:22:57 +0000
For my social networking site snowdogsr.us I decided to escape all user input that gets displayed. I know people like to trick out their profiles with HTML but I want to avoid the various hacks that it allows.
So thinking I had done a good job of using h everywhere I output user input fields, I decided to see if I could actually test this with RSpec view tests.
... Show more ...REST scaffold_resource security warning
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-06-26 15:14:04 +0000
This one is so blatantly obvious it bit me in the Butt at 4am this morning when I had to get up and fix it! I am so embarrassed, luckily no private data got out, as no-one has entered any private data yet.
I used the script/generate scaffold_resource to get started, and I left in those nice format.xml things in, thinking I may use them in the future. For the most part this is not a problem, but one of my controllers is a profile table. Much of the data in there is public anyway so no big deal, but a few columns are private data like email, date of birth, phone numbers etc. These are specifically private and not viewable publicly. This is enforced but not having a view that shows any of that stuff to the general public.
... Show more ...Developing a social networking site part 3 - tag cloud
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-06-23 14:02:49 +0000
This is a simple one.
I use the excellent acts_as_taggable plugin, and I wanted to have a
tag cloud like everyone does.
Developing a social networking site part 2 - rating stars
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-06-23 13:49:25 +0000
In part 1 I outlined my project to implement snowdogsr.us a social networking site for snow dogs.
I am pleased to announce that version 1 of this site is up, however I had to make some trade-offs to get it up this far. I needed to prioritize my goals and just get the essentials implemented.
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