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Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts Phlip blogs at: May 30 2010 While Extreme Programming remains a valuable template for project success, the decade of its adoption also saw the rise of many dilutions and derivatives. This post debunks some common myths about TDD. read moreMay 04 2010 My last post showed how to mock a webservice. When you have more than one webservice, all their common code, tests, and mocks should remain DRY. This post demonstrates a ruthlessly effective test pattern that forces many different interfaces to behave as similarly as possible, using the minimum possible test… read moreMay 04 2010 This post shows how to write a web service using Test-Driven Development. Our source code example is the exemplary active_merchant contribution to Ruby on Rails. It reveals how developer tests can correctly attack remote web services. Programmers writing clients (or servers) for any kind of web service should use these… read moreApril 20 2009 Well-factored code often has many small functions. If each adds value, and doesn't just pass the buck, then what do they all do? Typically, they contract their input by making it more specific. Then they delegate these specific data to a delegatee. read moreHow to upgrade to the latest version of Rails March 29 2009 I have upgraded several Rails 1.2.x programs to 2.x. This can be quite a leap, and some of the steps are counterintuitive, so this post attempts to put everything together, like a recipe. read moreFebruary 16 2009 All blogs correlate their posts with tags. This blog post shows how to use these tags to display a mind map, hooking the current post into a tree of related posts. read moreOctober 09 2008 Test Driven Development works best when each test case targets one aspect of a class's interface. So this post will demonstrate a simple and direct way to test a partial without testing the Views, layouts, and Controller actions surrounding it. On very complex projects, this technique keeps your partials decoupled. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts Buy Now and Save
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