[rails-oceania] Re: the perennial question - scalable australian hosting options?

2011-01-19 Thread Steve H
We are using "IBM Virtual Server Services" which runs VMware vCloud. They have just opened one datacenter in Auckland and have a second under construction. I would imagine if it's available NZ it will be in Australia too, but I wouldn't have a clue how to get access to it, it was all organized at

[rails-oceania] What are the cases to use fixtures/factory girl over mock framework?

2011-01-19 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi all, Can anyone explain what are the cases when to use fixtures/factory girl over mock framework? Or can we use mock framework without the need to use fixtures/factory girl these days? Thanks heaps for sharing. Kind regards, Joshua. -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi -- You received this mess

Re: [rails-oceania] What are the cases to use fixtures/factory girl over mock framework?

2011-01-19 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Fixtures is too broad of a concept to be dismissed entirely. When Rails introduced it (not to say it got invented at that stage), fixtures were YAML files containing properties for AR models. *that* in particular can, in general, be done more effectively with factory-like classes, since it helps wi

Re: [rails-oceania] What are the cases to use fixtures/factory girl over mock framework?

2011-01-19 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Can anyone explain what are the cases when to use fixtures/factory > girl over mock framework? Or can we use mock framework without the > need to use fixtures/factory girl these days? Hi Joshua, I use both fixtures and mocks/stubs for test