Archive for the “Development” category

Getting to know Ruby debugger

by Cameron Dykes on October 31, 2011

This is a guest-post by Cameron Dykes, about getting started with the ruby debugger. A key step to debugging any program is replicating the environment to ensure you can consistently produce the bug. In my early Ruby days, to inspect (…)

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Deploy a private Github repository with whiskey_disk

by Laust Rud Jacobsen on September 4, 2011

whiskey_disk makes it very easy to quickly deploy a new version of your site to one or more servers. It’s very efficient, as files are copied directly from your git repository to the server. This means you can very quickly (…)

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Idiomatic shared state in RSpec

by Laust Rud Jacobsen on February 17, 2011

RSpec is an extremely convenient tool for structuring and writing specs, and I use it on all my ruby-projects. One set of built-in helpers I’d like to cheer on a bit are let and let!, as they can greatly simplify (…)

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