Mike Brown II brownmike

Testing Mac Platforms with Test Kitchen

We'll assume an OS X Mavericks (10.9) box here.

Requirements

You'll need:

Vagrant
Vagrant's VMware Fusion provider

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

	source :rubygems

	gem 'shotgun', :group=>:development

	gem 'rack-cache'
	gem 'sinatra', :require => 'sinatra/base'
	gem 'sinatra-support'

	gem 'haml'

	If you see...

	Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
	If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
	building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

	Unexpected dylibs:
	/usr/local/lib/libmacfuse_i32.2.dylib /usr/local/lib/libmacfuse_i64.2.dylib /usr/local/lib/libosxfuse_i32.2.dylib /usr/local/lib/libosxfuse_i64.2.dylib
	Warning: Unbrewed .la files were found in /usr/local/lib.
	If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	uninstall() {
	list=`gem list --no-versions`
	for gem in $list; do
	gem uninstall $gem -aIx
	done
	gem list
	gem install bundler
	}

	# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
	for branch in `git branch -r \| grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ai %ar by %an" $branch \| head -n 1` \\t$branch; done \| sort -r