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Petr Zaparka

I'm not working

Posted by: Petr Zaparka

20 August 2010

Yes that's right, despite the fact that I'm employed by Unboxed I'm not working anymore. I'm going to work every day, programming some stuff but it's not work for me anymore. Really.

I have had this feeling since I start working with Rails and this feeling  became stronger when I came to London and joined Unboxed. I had heard about Agile and Scrum and I had tried to practise TDD and BDD before, but it's really different here and now.

I joined the real world of Agile. I was so excited (and...

Tom ten Thij

IRB completion from the debugger

Posted by: Tom ten Thij

18 August 2010

The default IRB completion code that ships with Ruby does not work well when being invoked from the debugger prompt:


>: ruby /test_script.rb 
[-2, 7] in /test_script.rb
   1  require 'ruby-debug'
   2  debugger
=> 3  :foo
/test_script.rb:3
:foo
(rdb:1) INTERNAL ERROR!!! undefined method `workspace' for nil:NilClass
        /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:38
        /Users/tomtt/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/ruby-debug-0.10.3/cli/ruby...

Tom Dickinson

Appetite for Agile

Posted by: Tom Dickinson

13 August 2010

This week I’ve been musing over the most expensive, and delayed record in music history, the (sort of) Guns n’ Roses album Chinese Democracy.

‘Sort of’ because it’s not really Gn’R at all, it’s the band’s last and only member, crazy-ego-maniac singer Axl Rose, and a cast of pretty much every session musician and hard rock guitarist working today... and Brian May.

When Axl started the record, George Bush Snr was in power, mp3’s weren’t devi...

Petr Zaparka

Which JS Unit Testing Framework?

Posted by: Petr Zaparka

13 August 2010

As a ruby developer I'm used to using testing frameworks like Rspec or Cucumber. I started polishing an old project of mine recently, which is written in Ruby/js and using Sinatra. When I looked at the code I noticed that there is a lot of JS code without any tests and because I'm big fan of tests, I decided I would write some. But what JS testing framework is best for my needs? I hope that this post will answer that question.

Summarisation of my ideal Framework follows. I am looking for a br...

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