Archive for the “Ruby” 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 (…)
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 (…)
Identify what your Ruby process is doing
by Laust Rud Jacobsen on February 2, 2011
Quick diagnostics of production issues become a lot easier with a direct way to inspect the running process. Ever wondered exactly what the program is doing right now, without adding a lot of slow logging? With this gem in place, (…)
