Chad's Blog

Interesting Things

• RSpec global before/after: In addition to Behaviour-scoped before and after method forms, Rspec also has global prepend_before, prepend_after, append_before, append_after methods.

• RSpec Custom Expectation Matchers: Remember that you can write your own Custom Expectation Matchers to make your specs as expressive as desired. For example: foo.should contain_text.

• Self-Signed SSL Cert Gotcha: Firefox and IE hate it when your Certificate Authority and Server Certificate have the same Common Name.

• RailMail: RailMail "gives you a persisted view of any mail your application has sent... With railmail there is no need to set up testing email accounts while developing your application; just send out mail to any address and Railmail will capture it." Nice...

• validates_presence_of in ActiveRecord calls blank?. This means you can use it check for dependent objects if you define blank?.