What an awful workflow. Actually, there's no flow at all.

Autotest-enabled Ruby Koans fork.

"I’ve been fiddling around with top-down (mock-style) TDD of functional programs off-and-on for a few months. I’ve gotten obsessed with deferring the choice of data structures as long as possible. That seems appropriate in a functional language, where we should be talking about functions more than data. (And especially appropriate in Clojure, my language of choice, since Clojure lets you treat maps/dictionaries as if they were functions from keys to values.)"

Grease Your Suite

Tips and tricks for faster testing

Nick Gauthier

SmartLogic Solutions

"45 minutes: do a bit of programming. A simple problem will be presented. Attendees solve it working in pairs, with the navigator VERY strictly enforcing this micro-process:
1) write exactly ONE failing test
2) make the test from (1) pass by first writing implementation code IN THE TEST
3) create a new implementation method/function by:
3.1) doing extract method on implementation code created as per (2), or
3.2) moving implementation code as per (2) into an existing implementation method
4) only ever create new methods IN THE TEST CLASS
5) only ever create implementation classes to provide a destination for extracting a method created as per (4).
6) populate implementation classes by doing move method from a test class into them
7) refactor as required
8) go to (1) "

"We’re currently adding Facebook integration to an existing application that uses Authlogic. That means adding a button that any user can press on the login form that then takes them to Facebook, signs them in and then lets them log into our site. For this purpose and the time being “Facebook integration” means only that: letting the user login with their Facebook details. For the Facebook side of things we’re using Facebooker which is not the well-documented library we all would hope it is. Oh, and you cannot use it as a gem with Rails."

Greg Wilson's slides from Devdays Toronto.

Last week I had a great time at the Latin America Rails Summit. (Thanks to the organizers for inviting me!) During breaks in the action here and there, I spent time working on Tarantula, and for a lot of that time I was sitting with Chad Fowler and David Chelimsky. David was working on RSpec, and asked Chad and me for help coming up with a good name for a method. The ensuing conversation struck all of us as a great example of the power of good names.