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h3. Hi ho, hi ho, Refactor as I go [2006/01/30] Today I tried to slim down my huge test code for my project at work. Slimming down 1500 lines of working test is hard. That is where test_helper.rb comes in; any assertion added in there is accessible to all your tests. Since I have layers [...]

h3. Agile Web with Rails and My Web New Engine [2006/01/28] Just finished up the tutorial in Agile Web Development with Rails l for the second time. This time around, everything worked and I was able to pick up some great pointers. I also have been reading the reference sections more now and have been [...]

h3. SysAdmin and TDD Rails [2006/01/27] Been a while since my last update but the past two weeks have been hectic. I took the Linux server live at work and got to fight the email daemons to work. Everything seems to be running fine now, even got personal Spamassassin and Procmail configs for all the [...]

O’Reilly now has their own version of the Beta Book. They call it Rough Cuts. Right now they have three titles I am looking at, Ajax Hacks Ruby Cookbook and Ruby on Rails: Up and running Agile Web Development with Rails looks like a more advanced Rails book than the Ruby on Rails: Up and [...]

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RakeSite and SysAdmin [2006/01/17] Yesterday I caught a hacking bug and just had to hack on something. Since I left my Agile Web Development with Rails book at work I decided to try to hack on my Rake built website. In less that 90 minutes I have reproduced about 90% of my business website. The [...]

Even though OSX has a pretty GUI I find myself in the Terminal about 70% of the time. Luckily in the latest MacWorld Magazine they highlighted an app called the Terminal Here Plugin. It function should be familiar to any GNOME user, it gives you the option to open a terminal in the folder you [...]