Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Just a quick note since this tripped me up yesterday. If you take a look at the changelog of RSpec between 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 you'll see that it now "intelligently" senses when being used with RCov and requires the autorun file (which basically just sets the tests to start automatically after they have been set up).
At some point for one of our simple apps I upgraded all of the Gems in use to the…
I'm still building up to my article on how to properly mock calls to Rake's sh to facilitate testing of your Rakefile tasks but I haven't quite worked up the strength to trace the calls through the libraries and into Eigenclass wonderland. For the moment, I've got just enough fodder to write a bit about determinism in testing.
Since Friday, both a coworker and I have been hit by the same testing…