Jay McGavren's Journal

2008-12-11

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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2008-12-09

Who We Are

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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.

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2008-12-09

After 1 level of a Gemini demo game…

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I haven’t laughed that hard in weeks…

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2008-12-07

Gate to the Star Road 1.0

Been sitting on four Super Mario World level edits since the release of the Lunar Magic level editor back in 2000. Stumbled across a review of Lunar Magic on the Hak5 podcast a couple weeks ago, which led me to a site devoted to SMW edits. Seems like a good time to do a release.

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Gate to the Star Road 1.0

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2008-12-04

The key to good results...

Puppies

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