Posts Tagged “tdd”

• 2016-05-20 Migrating a legacy gem to use Ruby Refinements

  An old gem that's been lying around untouched since 2010 got some refactoring love. Moving away from brutally monkey patching a core class, I used this case as an academic example to illustrate how to test refinements using Test::Unit, MiniTest::Spec and RSpec.

  • ruby
  • meta-programming
  • tdd

• 2013-10-06 Learning Ruby with Tests (Part 2)

  The second part expands on the code created in round 1 and fleshes out the existing Vehicle class. It introduces a new test helper, instance variables, explains predicates and the overrides Vehicle's initialize method.

  • ruby
  • learning
  • tdd
  • testing
  • instance variables
  • predicates

• 2013-09-02 Learning Ruby with Tests (Part 1)

  The first part covers a very basic class and a simple, home-made test framework, that actually doesn't deserve the name 'framework' at this stage, yet.

  • ruby
  • learning
  • tdd
  • testing

• 2013-08-27 Learning Ruby with Tests (Intro)

  The Ruby and Ruby on Rails community does an awesome job providing tons of learning material to get started. Testing, however, oftentimes only comes second. Some thoughts on how to change that.

  • ruby
  • learning
  • tdd
  • testing
  • minitest
  • rgsoc