Re: [rspec-users] [ANN] Lighthouse and Engine Yard sponsorships

2007-11-19 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Luis Lavena wrote: > the use of cygwin git is a bit problematic, and sometimes eol styles > mixes don't like the different interpreters (unix eol against windows > eol) with ruby-mswin32 and ruby cygwin. Yeah, I'll echo this. I do a lot of work with Perl, and it's a real bear to port Cygwin Perl

Re: [rspec-users] Using RSpec to drive the design of a GUI desktop application

2007-11-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Matthijs Langenberg wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been using RSpec as a tool to create web applications for some time > now, in Rails, and using plain Ruby with WEBrick as well. The tool suits > my needs and the story runner is great. > Now there are things that aren't solvable on the web,

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec Book(s) on the radar

2007-10-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
David Chelimsky wrote: > On 10/5/07, Cody P. Skidmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just found this one: http://tinyurl.com/3c3mfa >> >> David, are there any other RSpec books in the works? > > Yes! > > Alsak and I are writing Behaviour Driven Development in Ruby with > RSpec for the Pragmatic

Re: [rspec-users] Spec/Test Speed

2007-10-03 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Scott Taylor wrote: >> If your test suite and application are fully open source and you don't >> mind someone playing with it, I'm collecting benchmark suites for the >> Ruby interpreter and would love to have a nice heavy "rspec" run as an >> example of real-world Ruby usage. Contact me off-list i

Re: [rspec-users] Spec/Test Speed

2007-10-03 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Scott Taylor wrote: > Just wanted to pick some smart people about this topic: What are you > guys doing to increase the speed of your specs? > > I'm a big fan of autotest, but right now my current project has 438 > specs (for rails). Most of them are in the model, and for all of > them we a

Re: [rspec-users] Reason for _spec.rb convention

2007-09-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ashley Moran wrote: > On 4 Sep 2007, at 23:36, Dan North wrote: > >> C-hash > > I think you meant C-pound... > > > > ___ > rspec-user

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec book?

2007-08-08 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Ashley Moran wrote: > I hope it will have plenty of BDD theory. I'm still waiting for that > magic book I can give to someone and say "here - read this, it tells > you how to build software". I have two copies, but as far as I know it's still in print. If you can't find it, let me know -- I'l