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Contract Killer 3

Revised date: 07/11/2012

Between us [company name] and you [customer name]

Summary:

We’ll always do our best to fulfil your needs and meet your expectations, but it’s important to have things written down so that we both know what’s what, who should do what and when, and what will happen if something goes wrong. In this contract you won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. We’ve no desire to trick you into signing something that you might later regret. What we do want is what’s best for both parties, now and in the future.

Grab new backup of database

Command: heroku pgbackups:capture --remote production

Response: >>> HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL (DATABASE_URL) ----backup---> a712

Get url of backup download

Command: heroku pgbackups:url [db_key] --remote production

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.

	#Model

	@user.should have(1).error_on(:username) # Checks whether there is an error in username
	@user.errors[:username].should include("can't be blank") # check for the error message

	#Rendering
	response.should render_template(:index)

	#Redirecting
	response.should redirect_to(movies_path)

	!!! 5
	/[if lt IE 7] <html lang="en" class="no-js ie6">
	/[if IE 7 ] <html lang="en" class="no-js ie7">
	/[if IE 8 ] <html lang="en" class="no-js ie8">
	/[if IE 9 ] <html lang="en" class="no-js ie9">
	<!--[if (gt IE 9)\|!(IE)]><!--> <html lang="en" class="no-js"> <!--<![endif]-->
	%head
	%meta{:charset => "utf-8"}/
	/
	Always force latest IE rendering engine (even in intranet) & Chrome Frame

	=Navigating=
	visit('/projects')
	visit(post_comments_path(post))

	=Clicking links and buttons=
	click_link('id-of-link')
	click_link('Link Text')
	click_button('Save')
	click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
	click('Button Value')

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