Matt Fletcher on Atomic Spin

Ruby

RSpec: Thank You for Running My Tests in Random Order

Running your tests in random order will increase their robustness. You can now configure RSpec to do just that.

Presenter First

Presenter First in GTK+ and C – Updated for 2012

A sample project that demonstrates Presenter First in the context of GTK+ and C — updated to work with the latest tools.

Ruby on Rails

A Single CI Task for Rails

Want to run database and test tasks together in continuous integration? This might help.

Ruby on Rails

Basic Devise and Mass Assignment – Am I Missing Something?

What's the best way to handle mass assignment protection of the password field and still use Devise's built in controllers?

Web Apps

window.location as a Global Variable

Why I've chosen to avoid setting window.location directly, and how I've avoided it using Backbone's structures.

Web Apps

Rails Routes in Javascript with js-routes

jRuby

Be Aware of jruby.launch.inproc

Heads up for those not aware: it's not hard to get burned when you're executing other Ruby processes from within a JRuby process.

Web Apps

namespace: a CoffeeScript Nugget

I recently stumbled upon the namespace function in CoffeeScript’s FAQ.

Ruby

FirePoll – Simple Polling in Ruby

Ruby

Odd Warbler + Compass Gem Interaction

Here's the short version: If this looks familiar... make sure you don’t compile config/compass.rb. There's a longer version, too.

Developer Tools

Getting at a Childprocess’s pid

Ruby

RSpec Backtrace Filtering

Recently I ran into some trouble with the way I was trying to use the Mongoid gem. Eventually I realized that RSpec was filtering out parts of my backtrace.

Matt Fletcher

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