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Ruby: === operator

almost 5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
Recently I was looking at creating a patch for Mocha that would allow you to specify a class as an argument. The feature was added to allow you to specify...

Rake: --dry-run, --trace, and -T

~5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
When using rake it can often be useful to know the order in which tasks are being executed. To list the execution order you can issue the following command...

BNL: Extracting Sales Person

~5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
Versioning on an individual sales personBefore we add version control to our application we need something to version. Logically it seems you would like...

xUnit: Absence of Mocks and Stubs

~5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
In September of 2004 I met James Newkirk at the Microsoft Patterns and Practice Summit in Reston Virginia. If you don't know James, among other accomplishments...

Ruby: Protected class methods

~5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
Given the following class subjects_xml and subjects_html are public, not protected.class Blog def self.available_subjects(format) case format when...

RubyGems: Absolute Paths

~5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
In a previous post about RubyGems I mentioned that I prefer to unpack gems locally to remove dependency issues. While this does provide a code sharing...

Ruby: Testing Rake Tasks

~5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
If you develop in Ruby and you practice Test Driven Development you may consider the question: How do I test Rake tasks?Let's start with a task that drops...

BNL: Introduction - Update

over 5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I'm wrapping up another project these days and I'm revisiting my previous Business Natural Language information. The project provided many more lessons...

BNL: The Problem - Update

over 5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
The concept behind this 'chapter' is basically the same as the last time I put it on my blog; however, the example is largely new. As always, feedback...

BNL: The Solution - Update

over 5 years ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
Business Natural Languages: IntroductionBusiness Natural Languages: The ProblemBusiness Natural Languages: The SolutionBusiness Natural Languages: DRY code...