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Rails 3 – Building a Blog – Part 1: Test Setup & Generators

by Charles Max Wood on June 22, 2010


Every good project needs a good setup. In this episode, I set up a github repo, create a new rails application, hook in Cucumber and Rspec, write a Cucumber feature, and write the code to make it pass.
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Code Metrics with Metric Fu

by Charles Max Wood on April 20, 2010


Maintainability of your code can be measured in many different ways. Jake Scruggs has combined several of the tools that measure you code into one Ruby Gem: metric_fu.

Here’s a demonstration. Go check it out!
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RVM – Ruby Version Manager

by Charles Max Wood on March 23, 2010

RVM is a program that allows you to install and manage multiple versions of Ruby and Gems. This setup is ideal for testing your application or gem (library) against multiple versions of Ruby.

Also, if you’re looking into Rails 3 on Ruby 1.9 this is a great way to try it out.

Are you thinking about moving your application to Ruby 1.9? Do you have a gem or plugin you need to test in multiple Ruby versions?

RVM is your tool. It allows you to manage and install multiple Ruby versions and the gems installed under each version.
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