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Episode 7 - Cucumber, part 2

Bddcasts - 2010-08-30 - paid

Finish getting all of URLAgg.com’s features to pass. This concludes the upgrade to Rails 3 and Rspec 2.

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Episode 6 - Cucumber, part 1

Bddcasts - 2010-08-30 - paid

Starting the work on getting all of URLAgg ’s features to pass. Upgrading authlogic, dealing with the new Rails 3 XSS protection, install the dynamic_form plugin.

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Episode 5 - Bundler mistakes

Bddcasts - 2010-08-22 - free

We correct how we are using bundler. Correcting the behavior breaks some specs and we clean them up.

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Episode 4 - Getting specs to pass, part 2

Bddcasts - 2010-08-21 - paid

We pick up where we left off in episode 3 and finish getting our specs to pass after upgrading to Rails 3 and RSpec 2.

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Episode 3 - Getting specs to pass, part 1

Bddcasts - 2010-08-18 - paid

We go over all of the specs that are failing due to the upgrade to Rails 3 and RSpec 2, making changes needed to get them to pass.

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Episode 2 - Upgrading to Rails 3

Bddcasts - 2010-07-25 - paid

We upgrade the URLAgg project to Rails 3 and get the Rails console and server to load and run all the specs.

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Episode 1 - Moving to Bundler

Bddcasts - 2010-05-17 - free

Launching a new series: URLAgg updates. We upgrade URLAgg to the latest gems and migrate from using config.gem to Gem Bundler.

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Episode 17 - Escaping multi-word searches

Bddcasts - 2010-05-08 - free

We escape multi-word search terms before querying Google Blog Search.

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Episode 16 - Refactoring searches

Bddcasts - 2010-04-27 - paid

We refactor the association between Brand and Search so we don’t run the search for duplicate search terms.

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Episode 15 - FollowUp flag

Bddcasts - 2010-04-26 - free

We add a “Follow up” / “Done” toggle button next to every search result.

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