Posted by Curt Hibbs
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT
Gerard Meszaros is
writing a book
on the patterns used with the various XUnit frameworks. Unfortunately, there is no consistent use of terms for things like stubs, mocks, fakes, dummies, etc.
Generically, Gerard is calling them “Test Doubles”, and has some
specific definitions
for four different variations: Dummy, Fake, Stub, and Mock, which really make sense. I hope this catches on so that we can standardize our use of these terms.
via Martin Fowler
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Sun, 09 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT
Blaine Kendall has created a
Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet
that you can download. It’s hardly a “sheet”, already weighing in at 14 pages, but it is very well done and has already earned a spot in my personal Quick-Reference folder.
I also liked what
he had to say
about how a long project start-up time can kill the ability to even get started:
When coding in Java, I’d get an idea in my head, start brainstorming about how it would work then I’d start setting up my work environment at home.
* Create a new directory structure for the project.
* I’m going to need logging – get the latest log4j jars.
* Get JUnit for unit testing and include in project.
* Get Hibernate for database persistence. Configure the hibernate files.
* Get a templating project (Spring/Velocity/etc – take time to decide on which one) and add to project.
* Do I want to use Struts for this too?
* Assemble all the other jars I’ll need.
* Setup a new project and configuration in my IDE.
* Setup database connections and test that out.
* Etc, etc, etc.
By the time I even start to write one line of code, it’s usually taken me until 2 evenings later, as I’ve got a day job and these ideas are meant as fun nighttime projects. By this point, the excitement of the idea is lost and the project gets shelved along with the others as something more important has usually come along or interrupted me enough to get in my way.
With Ruby On Rails, it’s a much different story. Within 5 minutes of sitting at my computer, I can be up and running with a complete environment, database configuration and blank template pages already showing me some results. Hours vs minutes makes a lot of difference. Just getting the project started is much faster, not to mention the amount of code required to do comparable tasks.
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Sat, 01 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT
Sorry… this page is closed!
I’ve been getting way to much comment spam posted to my blog through this entry.
You can try out the “Live Search” box in the upper right-hand corner, which is implemented using AJAX. It searchs this blog as you type. Try somthing like “php”, “python”, or “american” (using “ruby” or “rails” will just get you almost every article on this blog).
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