A thing I couldn't do w/o good test coverage

massive_update.sh

# I run this command once a week on all of my active projects
# It helps ensure that I'm always able to use the latest/greatest
# versions of various dependencies, or at least that I find out
# quickly when I've become locked into a particular version 
# (which just happened with the latest versions of the Ruby gems
# Webmock and VCR

alias mrupd='git pull && bundle update && rdbm && rspec spec; sd'

# the alias stands for 'massive rails update' because I have a bunch of other aliases that
# do less invasive updates, like whenever I come back to a project I haven't used in awhile,
# or for projects that aren't Rails-based
#
# sd is another alias that uses OS X say and growl to tell me when the task is done
# in case I forget