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Click here to see the series overview In Part 3, we left off with a really gross looking DogSpec that is really redundant and has to specify all of the properties necessary to create a valid Dog over and over again. 1 var dog = new Dog { 2 Name...

Click here to see the series overview In Part 1, we left off with 2 really simple integration specs (inotherwords, they test the full stack by running against a running website). Typically, you want to have a small number of integration specs and a large number of model specs to...

Click here to see the series overview After recording Part 1, I tried to dive right into an episode about testing models but I found myself doing lots of clean-up. So I decided to stop and record an episode just to clean up our code! TDD MVC - Part 2...

I recently tried to give a conference talk on Test-Driving ASP.NET MVC. I totally failed. There was too much content to fit into 1 hour. So … I guess we should do a series! Series Overview Part 1 - Hello World Part 2 - IIS Configuration, EF Database Configuration, and...

When I’m working on my MVC sites, I often find myself wanting features that don’t come out of the box. When I know I want a feature, my thought process tells me to: Search on Google/MSDN/StackOverflow to see if the feature is built into MVC Search on nuget.org for a...

.NET development is typically done within a graphical IDE, eg. Visual Studio. If you want to do development on Linux or OS X, you can use MonoDevelop, an awesome cross-platform IDE. That’s cool, but I prefer doing development from the terminal. That’s the environment that I love. With Rails, if...

I’m here at Mix 2011 this week and I’d like to screencast demos of the awesome things I see while I’m here! Last night, I got an awesome opportunity to meet some of the AppHarbor team. They really impressed me and I decided that I owed it to myself to...

When I recently got back into .NET development, I quickly found myself wanting something like Rake I found myself creating a command-line application with lots of arguments for running different trivial little tasks that I didn’t want to do manually over and over again … I asked some of my...

Although I’m best known as a Rubyist, I’ve been using .NET since 2005. Back in November (2010), I started doing .NET full-time again. Since then, I’ve had a lot of fun (believe it or not!) learning about some of .NET’s new features/frameworks and creating lots of my own libraries and...

A friend of mine recently got into Rails development and asked me how I test-drive my Rails apps. I replied with this screencast :) In this screencast, we: create a new Rails 3 application include RSpec use Capybara to create integration specs make model specs to help pass our integration...