Monthly Archives: May 2008

RailsConf08: Testing and Contributing to Open-Source

By Nate Murray | Published: May 30, 2008
Yesterday afternoon I attended a lecture and workshop on how to contribute to open-source projects and associated testing tools. I want to briefly share with you some of the tools and philosophies. rcov rcov. rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. The idea is that you run it on your tests. Lines that get executed [...]
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RailsConf08: Meta-programming Ruby for Fun and Profit

By Nate Murray | Published: May 29, 2008
I’m currently at RailsConf and it is fantastic. I’ve met a good number of interesting people and attended some interesting sessions. Ruby Internals This morning Neal Ford and Patrick Farley gave a great session on Meta-programming Ruby for Fun and Profit. The slides should eventually show up here. Particularly interesting was Patrick’s portion about the internals of [...]
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Git from the Bottom Up

By Nate Murray | Published: May 15, 2008
John Wiegley recently wrote a great article about git called Git from the Bottom Up (pdf). I found it to be very helpful in clarifying how git works and that understanding makes git feel more accessible. Understanding commits is the key to grokking Git. You’ll know you have reached the Zen plateau of branching wisdom when [...]
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