Latest Screencasts

I’m working on another Cassandra demo, but didn’t have time to finish, so I decided to show you Ruby Koans. It’s a very interesting test-driven approach to learning Ruby. I hope you enjoy it.

On the Ruby Rogues podcast I mentioned that I had moved away from Cucumber to RSpec and Capybara for my integration tests. Here’s a demo on how to do some TDD with RSpec and Capybara.

Guard watches files and runs a command after a file is modified. This allows you to automatically run tests in the background, restart your development server, reload the browser, and more.

Are you testing your JavaScript? Learn how to add specs using Jasmine. This episode also covers jQuery integration with jasmine-jquery.

Request specs in RSpec are a great way to ensure the entire application stack is working properly. Here I also show how to use capybara with integrated JavaScript testing using Selenium.

Run your tests faster with parallel_tests gem using all the cores you have on your computer. Download Download (iPhone & iPod)

Ben Hughes shows off message_block, a gem which simplifies generating flash and error messages. Additionally, Ben discusses how to test gem development using Cucumber and Cukigem. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Rob Kaufman discusses common testing philosophies and methodologies in use by the Ruby community. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Put your Ruby tests in comments. - Delano

Test-driven development (TDD) is a programming technique that reverses the usual sequence of coding and testing. By writing tests just in advance of the code needed to satisfy them, programmers: * Work with confidence * Work on a series of achievable steps instead of tackling a big problem all at once * Ensure that software design meets the need of the actual code * Leave behind a suite of tests to help preserve the integrity of the code