Monthly Archives: June 2010

Rack-Test and Capybara are uneasy bedfellows

I’m using Capybara on a new project because apparently it’s the new hotness. Today I found out that all is not peaceful in the Cucumber/Capybara/Rack-Test stack. There is a cold war going on, and both Capy and Rack-test are jealously … Continue reading

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Rails 3 resource routes with dots; or, how to make a Ruby developer go a little bit insane

This one cost me at least an hour of frustration. So apparently the Rails router has considered the dot (“.”) to be a “separator” character along with the slash (“/”) since version 1.2. I don’t know in what context this … Continue reading

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Open for business!

I am pleased to announce that ShipRise LLC, my consulting company, is now accepting work effective immediately. I am available for services including: Ruby on Rails Application Development. I’ve been writing Ruby code for almost ten years, and Rails applications … Continue reading

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Announcing Wide Teams

Just in time for RailsConf 2010, I’m very pleased to introduce my new project: Wide Teams – the blog for geographically dispersed organizations. This site has been a dream of mine for a long time. I’ve worked with geographically distributed … Continue reading

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