Jay McGavren's Journal

Waved bye to Lenny and Diana and resumed work after our holiday BBQ… Then had a good laugh when I scanned my Twitter feed…

enjoying the #integrum family holiday lunch, lots of little kiddos running around

realzing that @integrum peeps have lots of little boys..

In case there was any ambiguity, I don't want children.

Been playing DJ on the office jukebox with my 5-star songs for the past couple days… There were many nodyaheads and people signing along to my Audioslave and Ben Folds Five selections yesterday, so I guess I’ve got okay taste in music. Don’t think today’s Fluke songs went over as well, ‘cause someone switched it out at some point. Oh, well.

Diana of course went nuts on the avatar editor for XBox Live as soon as it was released, poring over makeup, glasses, shoes, and everything. I dread the day they release paid content for this thing - she’ll buy as many shoes as she has in the real world. And after she was done with her own avatar, she moved on…

Lenny’s as short as we could make him, but you get the idea.

Cucumber/Webrat...

Is it just me, or are Cucumber tests in combination with Webrat really brittle? I’m generating messages to go in my inbox, and they weren’t showing up because I forgot to make them “from” the current user. I can’t say:

Given I am on the messages page #BAD
And there are 4 messages #BAD

…because that would load a page with no messages on it. It has to be:

Given there are 4 messages
And I am on the messages page

Not as versatile as Cucumber advocates seem to be promising. Maybe I’ll get used to this kind of stuff over time, but right now I’m encountering/generating way too many head-scratching bugs to be productive.

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Jay's personal motto is to be vicariously lazy: he believes he can make everyone's lives easier through software development. Though he enjoys coding in pure Ruby, his allergy to configuration files led him to Rails.