steveclarke

Capybara

save_and_open_page

Matchers

have_button(locator)

gertig

When building a new instance of Amazon EC2 choose quick-start-1 as the security group not default

#LOCALLY
$ capify .
$ chmod +x config/unicorn_init.sh
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "deployment configs"

If rebuilding an instance don't forget to remove the ssh keys

ryandotsmith

A Backbone.js demo app (Sinatra Backend)

Oct 16 2010

Updates

• 04/10/2011 - Updated application.js and application.rb thanks to @rebo's comments

In this article, I will walk through some simple steps to get a [demo app][2] up and running with [Backbone.js][3] and [Sinatra][4] on [Heroku][5].

v1nc3ntlaw

# Update, upgrade and install development tools:
apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade
apt-get -y install build-essential git-core curl libssl-dev \
                   libreadline5 libreadline5-dev \
                   zlib1g zlib1g-dev \
                   libmysqlclient-dev \
                   libcurl4-openssl-dev \
                   libxslt-dev libxml2-dev

tbeseda

(specify your favorite flavor if you're not ready for 1.9.3):

$ rbenv install 1.9.3-p0

to rebuild rbenv's shims, when you install a new system system gem with a binary (like rake):

$ rbenv rehash

set a global version of Ruby to be used (instead of your system Ruby):

metaskills

# WAIT! Do consider that `wait` may not be needed. This article describes
# that reasoning. Please read it and make informed decisions.
# https://www.varvet.com/blog/why-wait_until-was-removed-from-capybara/

# Have you ever had to sleep() in Capybara-WebKit to wait for AJAX and/or CSS animations?

describe 'Modal' do
  
  should 'display login errors' do
    visit root_path

dhh

# autoload concerns
module YourApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.autoload_paths += %W(
      #{config.root}/app/controllers/concerns
      #{config.root}/app/models/concerns
    )
  end
end

jraines

Install Rails 3.1 RC

gem install rails --pre

generate new app, skipping Test::Unit file generation

rails new my_app -T

Set up Gemfile

Gregg

Screencasting Framework

The following document is a written account of the Code School screencasting framework. It should be used as a reference of the accompanying screencast on the topic.

Why you should care about screencasting?

You're probably aren't going to take the time to read this document if you're not interested, but there are a lot of nice side effects caused by learning how to create quality screencasts.

1. Communicating more effectively - At Envy Labs we produce screencasts for our clients all the time. Whether it's demoing a new feature or for a presentation for an invester, they're often much more effective and pleasent than a phone call or screen sharing.

mikegehard

Continuous CoffeeScript testing with Guard and Jasmine

This Gist shows how to set up a Rails project to practice BDD with CoffeeScript, Guard and Jasmine. You can see this setup in action on Vimeo

• Install Gems with Bundler with bundle install
• Define your guards with mate Guardfile
• Initialize Jasmine with bundle exec jasmine init
• Configure Jasmine with mate spec/support/yasmine.ym
• Start Guard with bundle exec guard