Any good book or resource to start learning TDD with rails?
On 14 Ιούλ, 18:58, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 July 2010 16:18, lucky in ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > I am a rails beginners. I have created a couple of simple applications > > without following TDD. > > > I have a question - Do good programmers really follow TDD strictly ? I > > mean.. Do they follow { 1. Write Test 2. Write Code 3. Refactor } > > cycle ? > > The one time I write code before test is when I am not sure how to > achieve what I want to achieve in the app, For example I may wish to > get a particular visual layout and am not sure exactly what html I > need to generate to get the effect (due to my lack of experience). In > that case I will read docs, google and experiment with the code till > it is what I want and then knowing the html (which I make sure I now > understand) I write the tests. I then comment out the code generating > the html and check the tests fail, then put the code back in a bit at > a time to make sure the appropriate tests now pass. > > What I found amazing when I started with TDD was how quickly I got the > stage of writing tests and code to develop the app, often only viewing > the app in the browser almost as an afterthought, as I was confident > it was going to work anyway. > > Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
