Month: July 2009

Real World Example: Using factory_girl to simplify our test setup

~ Matthias Marschall ~ 8 Comments

When you do integration testing in a ruby on rails application, you don't want to stub out all involved models. Rails' built in approach of using fixtures is considered to be sub-optimal and the way to go today is to use factories. Homegrown Factories In our application we used to write our own factories, one … Continue reading Real World Example: Using factory_girl to simplify our test setup

New Conference On Agile System Administration: Devopsdays 2009

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Devopsdays 2009 After years of advocating, @patrickdebois's dream came true: He created the Devopsdays. Quoting his announcement from the Agile System Administration Google Group: Devopsdays '09, the conference that tries to get the best of both dev and ops world. Two days of fun and interesting talks. So if you are a developer with a … Continue reading New Conference On Agile System Administration: Devopsdays 2009

Kanban for Lean Project Management with agilezen.com

~ Matthias Marschall ~ 8 Comments

Zen is a brand new Kanban tool for lean project management. In contrast to PivotalTracker, which concentrates on automating iteration management for SCRUM like projects, Zen's main view is a story board. The funny thing is, that I preferred the stroy board view in Mingle over the list view provided by PivotalTracker before I started … Continue reading Kanban for Lean Project Management with agilezen.com

Aegis: Role-based Permissions for your Ruby on Rails application

~ Matthias Marschall ~ 20 Comments

This is a guest post by our friends over at makandra, a cool Ruby on Rails development shop. Today they announce a great new Ruby gem for dealing with role-based permissions. You know the game! Each time you start a new application the same procedure starts over again: You set up your tools like git, … Continue reading Aegis: Role-based Permissions for your Ruby on Rails application