Michael de Silva bsodmike

I'm a fan of MiniTest::Spec. It strikes a nice balance between the simplicity of TestUnit and the readable syntax of RSpec. When I first switched from RSpec to MiniTest::Spec, one thing I was worried I would miss was the ability to add matchers. (A note in terminology: "matchers" in MiniTest::Spec refer to something completely different than "matchers" in RSpec. I won't get into it, but from now on, let's use the proper term: "expectations").

Understanding MiniTest::Expectations

Let's take a look in the code (I'm specifically referring to the gem, not the standard library that's built into Ruby 1.9):

# minitest/spec.rb

module MiniTest::Expectations

I find a mistake in the book or somebody else points one out using the review system's notes.
I fix the mistake in the ERB/XML version of the book.
The ERB/XML version is then automatically converted into an XML document via a running Guard process.
I commit both files to the Git repository for the book, and then push these to GitHub
GitHub tells the review tool that a push has occurred, and sends through a push notification.
The review tool receives the notification and stores a job in Resque to parse the book.
A resque worker runs the job, detecting which files have changed and then updates just those chapters.
For each chapter, each element is processed individually using an XSLT file and stored in a MongoDB database as HTML (I know, right?)
When a user requests a chapter, this page is then read from the database and then cached back to Redis.
Every time a chapter is updated, be it by the automated process or by a user putting a note on the book, the cache is reset.

Patched ruby 1.9.3-p194 for 30% faster rails boot

What is?

This script installs a patched version of ruby 1.9.3-p194 with patches for boot-time performance improvements (#66 and #68), and runtime performance improvements (#83 and #84). It also includes the new backported GC from ruby-trunk.

Huge thanks to funny-falcon for the performance patches.

	require "money"

	class Decorator < BasicObject
	undef_method :==

	def initialize(component)
	@component = component
	end

	def method_missing(name, *args, &block)

	# Install rvm system-wide
	bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer )

	# Update the packages
	apt-get update
	apt-get upgrade
	apt-get install build-essential

	# get the packages required by ruby
	rvm pkg install zlib

	var express = require('express')
	, app = express.createServer()
	, io = require('socket.io').listen(app);


	app.use(express.bodyParser());
	app.listen(13002);

	var connections = {}

	brew install https://raw.github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/master/duplicates/autoconf.rb
	brew link autoconf
	brew install https://raw.github.com/adammw/homebrew-alt/automake/duplicates/automake.rb
	brew link automake
	rvm cleanup all
	rvm install 1.9.3-perf --patch falcon,debug

	ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
	require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
	require 'rails/test_help'
	require 'minitest/autorun'
	require 'minitest/pride'
	require 'capybara/rails'


	class MiniTest::Spec
	include ActiveSupport::Testing::SetupAndTeardown

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Before you use this:
	# git clone git://github.com/some-other-user/their-repo
	# This assumes that origin is the repo that you are merging into!

	require 'rubygems'
	gem 'rest-client'
	gem 'crack'
	require 'rest-client'