November 2010
3 posts
ThoughtWorks Manchester Javascript Unconference
Last saturday we went to the Manchester Javascript Unconference organized by ThoughtWorks.
We presented few javascript spike we are working on at the moment for SuperDevs. I’ll will let you know when they are online.
Other talks covered node.js, testing javascript, performance and common patterns for client side javascript.
It has been nice to meet some of SuperDevs members and to see...
TDD: Rails controllers tests with RSpec
SuperDevs is the first real world Ruby on Rails project we worked so we are learning things on the way.
We started writing controller specs using the default template proposed which looks a bit like this:
After a while those specs became a bit hard to read and often a bit brittle. We are now writing them in this format:
As you can see it is based more on the actual use cases than the...
Welcome to SuperDevs
We’ve been live since august, and a lot has happened since then. We didn’t spend much time sharing our little successes and problems with you. We are going to use this blog to post about new features and maybe go deep into technical discussions about stuff like Ruby On Rails, Git, Javascript, Community building and so on.
SuperDevs was born when I (David Santoro) was working on a...