[rails-oceania] Re: Senior Rails developer top 3 frustrations

On Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:14:59 UTC+11, Tim Moore wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:01:31 PM UTC+11, Gregory McIntyre wrote: > >> 3) Non-deterministic tests are the devil. I've been nailing them down one >> by one and some days it feels like it's

[rails-oceania] Re: Improving Rorosyd

Thanks for the write-up, Steve. <3 <3 <3 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this gro

[rails-oceania] Re: Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Monday, 3 March 2014 11:50:38 UTC+11, Garrett Heinlen wrote: > > I think more than anything people should be aware of who is speaking and > adjusting their level of heckling accordingly. > Just to be perfectly clear, in case I am being misrepresented, my concern is not for the person being h

[rails-oceania] Re: Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

So returning this thread to its purpose, which was not about heckling per se, here is a list of the suggestions you've all made so far. Thank you! Please keep suggesting things if you think of them. It helps our leaders lots. :) - Small programming challenges at hack night like koens, katas, et

Re: [rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Friday, 28 February 2014 21:28:39 UTC+11, Andrew Grimm wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Jon Rowe > > wrote: > >> If we're speculating here, it's also possible that alienated regulars >> would be amply replaced in numbers by enthusiastic new people. It's pretty >> easy to add up t

Re: [rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Friday, 28 February 2014 21:14:53 UTC+11, Jon R wrote: > > If we're speculating here, it's also possible that alienated regulars > would be amply replaced in numbers by enthusiastic new people. It's pretty > easy to add up the number of serious GA graduates to Rails Girls repeat > attendees

Re: [rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Friday, 28 February 2014 17:17:12 UTC+11, Jon R wrote: > > Please note that if you alienate all the regulars you will end up with a > situation as bad or worse than we have now. If you want RoRo to grow there > must be compromise but that won't happen if you segue regulars off to > ""RoRoDrin

[rails-oceania] Re: Senior Rails developer top 3 frustrations

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:17:04 UTC+11, pythonic wrote: > > > What are the THREE things you find MOST frustrating about your day-to-day >> job in the last few months? >> > > Insinuations of white male privilege :-p > Do we need to have a conversation? lols :) -Greg -- You received

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Thursday, 27 February 2014 10:12:33 UTC+11, Jon R wrote: > > We need to find a way to keep our heckling and encourage new talks; for me > being heckled is part of the fun ;) > There are a lot of beginners I have talked to from Rails Girls, InstallFest and GA who have anecdotally mentioned mil

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Thursday, 27 February 2014 11:04:33 UTC+11, lachie wrote: > > Something that's gone unmentioned is... where are these perfectly balanced > and targeted talks coming from? > > People talk about what they want to talk about. The orgs can encourage a > certain direction, but that's all (unless

Re: [rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:12:28 UTC+11, Paul Annesley wrote: > > TL;DR: Ruby: relevant! Go-karting: fun! Health talks: neither. > It's possible that we should go to different events in future because we fundamentally like different things. I'm guessing there are others like me, though.

Re: [rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 12:51:52 UTC+11, Jon R wrote: > > You know there *is* a hack night, and that this is the sort of thing that > should be arranged for that. Forgive me if any of these things are already being done. :-) -Greg -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: [rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 12:35:19 UTC+11, Clifford Heath wrote: > > Heh, nice list. Not sure that RORO *should* attempt to meet all social > needs, > Nor do I. > * Go-carting day. Thinking of a 2-hour stint from 9-11AM on a Sunday at > Eastern Creek. > Awesome. > * Talk & discus

[rails-oceania] Senior Rails developer top 3 frustrations

== ACK WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE == Are you a senior Rails dev? What are the THREE things you find MOST frustrating about your day-to-day job in the last few months? I'm happy to start: 1) No issue tracker I have ever used meets my requirements wish list, thus I sad. How do others solve some of the

Re: [rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 12:23:06 UTC+11, Chris Berkhout wrote: > > * Talks aimed at beginners and intermediate people. >> > > Also, advanced talks that are more useful and accessible to all, by > focussing on concepts rather than specific tools. > > For example, I've been dealing with rep

Re: [rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 12:10:36 UTC+11, Malcolm Locke wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:35:18PM -0800, Gregory McIntyre wrote: > > * Fun small programming competitions/challenges. e.g. "What is the > English > > word that's letters can be rearran

[rails-oceania] Call For Awesome: Improving RORO brainstorming sesh

== ACK WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE == No idea too crazy. What are some of the ways you'd improve our little community so it's even more fantabulous than it is now? Forgive me for being Sydney-centric. I live here, ya know? I welcome all the voices from RORO Ballarat too, or wherever it is people do Ru

Re: [rails-oceania] RSpec calling_it gem

am Madden wrote: > Nice work Greg. > > You could possibly make calling_it { should meet_expectations { > b.should_receive(:command) } } a bit nicer, e.g. calling_it { should > send_to(b, :command) }. #meet_expectations seems a bit general. > > Will > > > On 1 Augu

[rails-oceania] RSpec calling_it gem

Check it. https://github.com/rails-oceania/rspec-one_liners I wrote this at the last Railscamp NZ, and I only just got around to packaging it as a gem. I thought I'd put it in the roro account, since I did it at a roro hack night. All communal like, see? Jon Rowe tells me that its implementati

[rails-oceania] Archiving a Rails page render

I'm not sure if I'm using the right search terms... Is there a gem that would let me take a pretty "standard" Rails HTML page with a stylesheet link tag and a JS include tag and images with non-data-URI sources, and put the stylesheets in

Re: [rails-oceania] rails 3.2.13 console debugger not starting up

On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 11:17:56 UTC+10, Gregory McIntyre wrote: > > pry-debugger works. Putting the shortcut aliases in .pryrc and hopefully > never looking back. Thanks for getting me unstuck today Steve. :) pry-debugger seems cool, but my muscle memory needs some help. I figur

Re: [rails-oceania] rails 3.2.13 console debugger not starting up

pry-debugger works. Putting the shortcut aliases in .pryrc and hopefully never looking back. Thanks for getting me unstuck today Steve. :) On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 10:59:34 UTC+10, Steven Ringo wrote: > > Greg, > > Have you tried pry-debugger? > > > On 03/07/2013, at 10:52

[rails-oceania] rails 3.2.13 console debugger not starting up

Is this not working for anybody else? It's in my Gemfile, in the right environment, etc. In unicorn, everything works as expected. It breaks out at the line I put "debugger" on, inside some model code. Happy times. In the Rails console ("rails c" and "rails c --debugger"), the "debugger" state

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Tools for self education

Thanks everybody! <3 <3 <3 On Thursday, 21 March 2013 22:44:45 UTC+11, Steve wrote: > > I've been using BeyondPod (android app) for a while now. > It's an RSS reader, but it manages audio/video podcasts too, so every > night at about 2am it downloads the latest articles/audio/video and when I >

[rails-oceania] Tools for self education

What online information sources do you use for keeping up to date with Rails? They might be news mailing lists, RSS feeds, whatever. I don't mind the format, I just want to know what works for you. How do you keep up-to-date efficiently, without being drowned in noise? A little back story: I am s

Re: [rails-oceania] Mentor for beginner level

On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 08:56:54 UTC+11, Mark Ryall wrote: > > Perhaps this is premature and unnecessary generalisation but i've been > thinking for some time about building a kind of LET > system for > this kind of thing where yo

[rails-oceania] Sydney developer looking for work

Hi guys, Any companies on this list who are in need of a great developer? I do Rails mostly. Ideally for me, your position would have an October start, be on site (salary or contract), based in the Sydney CBD, or otherwise near a train station and some tasty food. ;-) Off-site, consultancy, cont

Re: [rails-oceania] Database.yml code

I've found it's pretty easy to accidentally load the rails env in rake, especially when you're the poor "next guy" managing the project. A lil shell script might be nice, though. I'm all for copy and paste driven development, as long as you understand what you're doing. ;-) -Greg On 15 August 2

Re: [rails-oceania] How do you spec sorting?

I agree with Paul and David. I would use strategy (2) with Machinist'd data or stubs. 1. Set up two items, out of order. 2. Assert ordered(items) swaps them. If you are concerned about further cases such as numerical sorting versus string sorting, or edge cases, then put those in too, but David's

Re: [rails-oceania] Digest for rails-oceania@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

Feel free to steal any bits you find useful from mine: https://github.com/puyo/config/blob/master/.vimrc https://github.com/puyo/config/tree/master/.vim :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send e

Re: [rails-oceania] Integration spec failing on CI

ound with the emerge on Gentoo when >> installing Nokogiri dependencies. >> >> I'll dig deeper when I can get more time allocated from the platform >> engineer :) >> >> On Friday, 20 July 2012 20:47:35 UTC+10, Gregory McIntyre wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [rails-oceania] Integration spec failing on CI

That you can run it individually and it passes suggests that there is a test interdependency. Any before(:all) calls in your tests? Any tests that write to disk? Can you run the entire suite manually in whatever manner you ran the single test manually? It would help confirm that theory. If it can b

Re: [rails-oceania] "Previous" developers - the bigger picture

+1 in general. It's been pretty obvious to me, in the past, what the sorts of problems must have been on inherited code. Mostly because I have had to deal with the same clients and pressures that the previous guy had to. i.e. This situation is more than just an engineering one. I agree with Micha

Re: [rails-oceania] Why don't you use heckle?

I am working an inherited code base back up to 100% test coverage, where it should be, and then I will be using heckle. But maybe I should use heckle along the way? 100% is easy to achieve and maintain, and lets you refactor wildly and safely and it's basically essential for live code, in my world

Re: [rails-oceania] Soft-delete on has_many through association

Given the pain I've seen in Rails projects that use default scopes and non-POLS AR helpers, I'd go for changing the current API to make it all very explicit. Still, if you write a spec for it and invite people to do it as a code kata / challenge, it might be fun. -Greg -- You received this mess

Re: [rails-oceania] ruby.org.au

I love this discussion. I've long been an advocate of Ruby for teaching. I promoted using Ruby to lecturers at the ANU about 12 years ago. I gave a lecture on Ruby at a course about Python at UNSW. I have trained people on Ruby in a corporate setting. Julio reckons I taught him Ruby, but he's just

Re: [rails-oceania] [railscamp] Railscamp 11 Tickets

I don't drink at all. Would I get much out of Railscamp? -Greg -- 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-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oc

Re: [rails-oceania] Rake task to convert erb to haml

I used Slim for a bit recently, but I went back to HAML due to a few minor issues. I'm used to doing this kind of thing in HAML: %p Some text that does not preserve whitespace, probably formatted with gq in Vim. But in Slim, I end up with pipes at the start of every line, or preformatt

Re: [rails-oceania] Rake task to convert erb to haml

If I were you I'd code review all the HAML manually after that kind of thing. html2haml has in the past gotten things a little wrong occasionally in erb files with if statements and nesting - I can't remember specifics. The way I do this kind of thing is one file at a time and read over it to chec

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: method with dynamic arguments

I think it is best used when the case of passing one argument is common, but you want to support adding several things too. [1,2,3].push(4) # common [1,2,3].push(4,5) # uncommon but nice [1,2,3].push(*[4,5]) # uncommon but supported If it always had to take an array, then that first case would be

Re: [rails-oceania] Internet monitoring solutions

Yeah, scraping is hard and I don't want to go there. I also want to avoid hosting and maintaining my own system if I can avoid it. Google Alerts might be a better solution to turn website changes into emails, and I am still keen to funnel everything into a Gmail account where it gets stored and fil

Re: [rails-oceania] Internet monitoring solutions

Mikel, Of course! I am sorry if I oversimplified by calling it merely health monitoring. ;-) Lyndon, It's also an option but I wanted to shout out and see if somebody else already had a solution before I got stuck in. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: [rails-oceania] Internet monitoring solutions

seems promising. Does anybody use it much? It seems to me like configuring it right would be most of the challenge. On 7 December 2011 15:08, Chris Berkhout wrote: > http://www.changedetection.com/ > > Cheers, > Chris > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Gregory McIntyre

[rails-oceania] Internet monitoring solutions

and I don't want to set it all up if there's a better way. Regards, Gregory McIntyre -- 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-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscr

[rails-oceania] How to calculate an hourly, contractual rate

Speaking of good accountants, how do you find one? How do I tell if one is good? And lastly, would anybody here like to promote one they know in Sydney? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email t

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails is Not Your Application ...

The more I think about this article, the more I feel sick. Service? Manager? 10s of thousands of lines of code? This isn't Java. Next he'll be writing factory classes and going to conferences to talk about using singletons to improve testability. Cool architecture, bro. "My application was a ball

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails is Not Your Application ...

I put non-ORM classes - or "services layer" classes - in app/models, not lib. To me, lib seems like the place to put library (i.e. generic, or not application specific) Ruby files that don't happen to be packaged as gems. To me, the directory 'app' implies 'application specific'. In the example lin

Re: [rails-oceania] Recommendations on using Cucumber

On Thursday, 13 October 2011, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > Is there a way to list all the step_def from Cucumber to use as a > reference? > There is cucumber --help cucumber --usage Not sure how easy to use the output is but it sounds to me like it should do what you require. Maybe a bit of o

Re: [rails-oceania] Blueprint for Fluid layout

OOCSS grids can be fluid. They are fixed proportions of their containers, so if their container is fluid, they are too. They're simple to use. Various people have stuck the OOCSS grids definitions into SASS/Compass, too. https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki/Grids https://github.com/steadicat

Re: [rails-oceania] Blog software recommendations?

If you do go for static site generators, give Middleman a look in. I'm giving it a whirl. Not sure how well it's going to go but it seems cool so far. http://middlemanapp.com/ -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: [rails-oceania] Speeding up Rails specs

idly and mixed together in combinations of context blocks, without much extra stubbing/mocking. I hope that makes sense. Happy to explain with more examples if it helps. -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania"

Re: [rails-oceania] Speeding up Rails specs

On 26 August 2011 17:03, Scott Harvey wrote: > So with that in mind how would you go about writing a unit test for > the example that I gave at the top of this thread? Oh you want me to do more than mouth off? ;-X I'd do something along these lines: https://gist.github.com/1172955

Re: [rails-oceania] Speeding up Rails specs

nit test stubs out its collaborators, I am happy to stub out something that is unit tested inside the Rails framework. -- Gregory McIntyre -- 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

Re: [rails-oceania] Non RVM installation of Ruby on Ubuntu

Also, nowadays I use $ rvm notes or $ apt-get -s build-dep ruby1.8 to quickly determine what packages you need to install before attempting to build ruby from source on Ubuntu. It's a bit annoying when you build it all and it doesn't have readline support or something. -

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby, ODBC and FreeTDS

If you have any problems with TinyTDS, I've found the maintainer to be very responsive to patches and issues, too. -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email t

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Ruby: the non-awesome parts

7;there'} i.e. Python only ever initialises the default value for bar once. You should only ever use immutable objects as default values. Which, if you ask me, is a nasty gotcha. -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Ruby: the non-awesome parts

break > that thing out into a separate object. > mark Got any links to "private considered harmful" type articles? I always prefer private over protected because private is simple and does not convolute a class's interface. To me, protected implies an overengineering-like

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Ruby: the non-awesome parts

class << self; self; end # explain what self is in 20 words or less require File.expand_path('foo/bar', File.dirname(__PATH__)) # why is this not a built-in function? Lack of Python keyword arguments. Having to use symbol-keyed hashes and syntax sugar to approximate such a common case and ending

Re: [rails-oceania] [Rails] What's the nicest way to create a specific time (not now) in a particular time zone?

ulations. I get a feeling that there has to be a more convenient way but maybe it's just one of those special topics of software development that always feels like a cluster...um...train wreck. -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [rails-oceania] Cucumber, Capybara - troubleshooting what on earth is going on...

7;s a perfectly valid way to work. The beautiful irony of cucumber is that it is a great testing tool that can itself sometimes feel a bit under-tested. ;-) -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" gro

Re: [rails-oceania] Cucumber, Capybara - troubleshooting what on earth is going on...

Also, tried with --format pretty and maybe --expand ? -- Gregory McIntyre -- 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-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group,

Re: [rails-oceania] Cucumber, Capybara - troubleshooting what on earth is going on...

issue is... > > Cheers, > Jason > > -- > 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-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to &g

Re: [rails-oceania] Business addresses

Thank you all for the feedback. I will take a crack at it. -- Gregory McIntyre -- 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 g

[rails-oceania] Business addresses

Anyone have any ideas on the best way to take business names and turn them into addresses of those businesses, via web API, scraping or any other means? -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group.

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: MSSQL connection sans ODBC?

I think Sequel and DataMapper rely on ODBC too. Although DM's MSSQL support is a little out of date. Their documentation still says "pending". -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" gro

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: What don't you like about ruby?

shared communal expectations. -- Gregory McIntyre -- 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+unsubsc

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: What don't you like about ruby?

find the differences between proc, lambda, blocks and methods extra complexity I could do without, but it doesn't come up that often for me, personally, for some reason. e.g. I rarely want to pass 2 blocks to a method. -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: What don't you like about ruby?

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Re: [rails-oceania] What don't you like about ruby?

concern. Syntactic dead end? * It could benefit from being a little bit more Haskelly. I still seem to love Ruby in spite of its warts though. -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group.

Re: [rails-oceania] What I like about ruby

7; keyword. * S many Rails/Ruby libraries. As Nathan once said, web dev is starting to get too easy. -- Gregory McIntyre -- 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...@

Re: [rails-oceania] Last night's meet up

Can we tee totaller Rails devs trade beers for like... um... chocolate bars, or some thing cool and unrelated to beer? Ha. I say "we" like there's more than one. -- Gregory McIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rail