[rails-oceania] Re: Caching on Development

2010-07-31 Thread Alex Pooley
Stub with fake data instead of making the API call. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubs

[rails-oceania] Re: Beyond machinist

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Pooley
This sounds like an interesting challenge. But, I like to keep my tests super stupid and your hand waving solution hurts my head. What about throwing the tests at a cluster or something? *hands waving* Buuut, say I was to bite... an easy win would be to take a snapshot at the end of a setup block.

[rails-oceania] Ruby on Rails Training

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Pooley
ullarbor. We've created an expression of interest form on our website that I'd encourage anyone not in Perth but interested in the course to complete. You will find the syllabus and further details on our website - http://railstraining.in Alex. -

[rails-oceania] RoRo Perth

2009-10-02 Thread Alex Pooley
Folks, RoRo Perth October is on! A few months ago the RoRo Perth meet up planning somehow migrated over to Meetup.com. The last few months have seen a good turnout, with up to 15 Perth RoR devs turning up, and a couple of talks each month. If you're a Rails dev interested in keeping up with our

[rails-oceania] Re: Algorithm Problem

2009-03-31 Thread Alex Pooley
significant set overflows, it increments the set to it's right to increment by one, and if that overflows, then it tells the set to it's right to increment, etc.I think if you imagine how a car odometer works you'll understand my code pretty quickly.Good luck! Alex Pooley (ABN

[rails-oceania] Re: Mocking out view_paths for view tests in Rspec

2009-03-03 Thread Alex Pooley
What if you stub ActionController::Base.view_paths instead?E.g. http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2006/11/9/tutorial-rspec-stubs-and-mocks Alex Pooley (ABN: 47 643 918 301)Freelance DeveloperWeb: http://www.alexpooley.comMobile: 0438 313 337Email: ampoo...@gmail.comAddress:  PO Box 17,  Applecross