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Unpopular Developer 5: Stop Unit Testing Your Scaffold Controllers

This goes out to all the veteran Ruby on Rails developers: those who have the...
Mike Burns
August 12, 2009
- web
- testing
- good code
Search By Quacking Like ActiveRecord

The story we’re trying to implement here is: as a user I want to search and...
Mike Burns
July 22, 2009
- web
- ruby
- rails
Integrating Vim Into Your Life

More tips from thoughtbot about using vim, but this time with an emphasis on...
Mike Burns
April 8, 2009
- vim
- unix
Testing Rake's Integration

So now you’re integration testing, because that’s what cool kids are doing...
Mike Burns
March 20, 2009
- web
- rails
- testing
I Accidentally the Whole SMTP Exception

You have a slick, exclusive, invite-only Web app for sharing Tor URLs, with...
Mike Burns
December 22, 2008
- web
- ruby
The Accept: header vs. #caches_page

In this example we’re going to have an XML API on FontsController#index. A...
Mike Burns
October 21, 2008
- web
- rails
- performance
Non-Test Code is Trivial

I have heard—and been in the middle of—arguments which make the claim that...
Mike Burns
October 17, 2008
- web
- testing
Phusion Passenger with a prefix

The Mongrel Web server can run with a URL prefix, using the –prefix option....
Mike Burns
September 19, 2008
- web
- rails
A HTTP Testing Proxy

Hoptoad—which is now live—is both an application and a Rails plugin that must...
Mike Burns
July 25, 2008
- web
- testing