Jared Ning ordinaryzelig

user clicks purchase
fare_id is sent to SearchService
SS queues BotQueen with fare_id
BQ gets job
BQ uses SearchClient to request data from SS (segment, fare, etc.)
SS handles this request, queries db, responds to BQ with results
BQ sends info to bot
bot constructs HTML, making requests to agency if necessary
bot returns HTML to BQ
BQ sends HTML to be stored in Redis

(TLDR: http://railscasts.com/episodes/327-minitest-with-rails)

I just started a new Rails 3.1 project. I decided to use MiniTest::Spec for all my testing. I also wanted to use my typical testing tools: Capybara, Spork, etc. I didn't find much support for MiniTest, and even less for MiniTest::Spec. Here's some documentation on what I ended up with.

I'm starting a JavaScript project using the Jasmine Ruby gem for testing, and I only want to use CoffeeScript. After looking around to see how other projects did it, I didn't find any project with a "pure" CoffeeScript solution. The projects I saw only had the source code written in CoffeeScript but tests written in JavaScript. I wanted all my code including tests to be written in CoffeeScript.

This is what the basic directory tree looks like in my project:

~models
 file1.coffee

I ran into this problem today using RSpec with Webrat. I had this piece of code:

it 'should redirect to somewhere' do
  visit page_that_redirects_somewhere_path
  response.should redirect_to(somewhere_else_path)
end

I know that the controller is redirecting, but for some reason, in the test, the response was not showing a redirect.

If you're using AJAX in Rails 3 with jQuery, there's a little gotcha you may want to know about, especially if your'e at the laundromat.

I was working at the laundromat and getting this really weird error. Every remote link was broken. Whenever I clicked on a link that was supposed to do some AJAX magic, I would get a routing error that the url wasn't being matched. Looking at the log, it was requesting with GET instead of PUT, POST, etc. I looked at the HTML source and everything looked fine:

data-remote="true" "data-method="put"

I'm in the process of adding AJAX to a Rails app. One obstacle I have is updating the flash. I need all my AJAX requests to update the flash if my controller sets the flash with a message that I want shown on my page. So far I've converted 4 actions to AJAX, but there are at least 10 more. Customizing each action to update the flash message gets very tedious. So I need a way of DRYing it up.

For my templates, I'm using js.erb extensions (e.g. a request to /articles/create.js would render the app/views/articles/create.js.erb template). At the top of each template, I put some javascript code with some helper code:

I used to host my dev blog on Posterous. Twitter bought them out, and they were shutting down shop. I had to move my blog, but I didn't know where. I knew I didn't want much hassle which made me lean towards finding a hosted solution like wordpress. But I also knew I wanted something that would be good for sharing code snippets. At one time, Posterous had support for code snippets and markdown, which was great. Their support of it...not so much. I got so tired of their lack of support that I started just writing markdown in Github gists and pointed people to it. And then I started wondering if I could somehow strike a balance between a no-hassle solution and using gists.

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	1) Error:
	test_0001_crawls, parses, and returns array with data of journeys(DeBahnApi::.find):


	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>AtoB</title>
	<link href="/assets/application.css?body=1" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
	<link href="/assets/jquery.ui.core.css?body=1" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
	<link href="/assets/jquery.ui.theme.css?body=1" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
	<link href="/assets/jquery.ui.autocomplete.css?body=1" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
	<link href="/assets/jquery.ui.datepicker.css?body=1" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

	{
	"agency_node_details": [
	{
	"details": {
	},
	"meta_details": {
	}
	},
	{
	"details": {