May 10
This is a third part of the JavaScript optimization tutorial, and today I’m going to talk about events. Sorry for a long delay between posts, I hope remaining parts would not be delayed so much.
Scenario: you have some elements and you need to add some actions to them (for example, when user moves mouse cursor over element, or clicks on elements).
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May 05
RSpec has great feature — mock objects (mocks). In a few words: mock object imitates behavior of the object, which used by the tested methods. And simple example immediately:
describe UserHelper
it 'should generate correct link to user profile in user_link' do
@user = mock('User')
@user.stub!(:id, 10)
@user.stub!(:new_record?, false)
@user.stub!(:preferred_name, 'Dmytro S.')
@user.stub!(:full_name, 'Dmytro Shteflyuk')
user_link(@user).should == link_to('Dmytro S.', user_url(:id => 10), :title => 'Dmytro Shteflyuk')
end
end
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Apr 27
Rails is just an interface to the memcached?
Cache the Hell out Everything
90% API Requests — cache them
Read the Scaling Twitter.
Apr 19
Unfortunately, RSpec does not provide helpers for testing mailers like TestUnit. But it is easy to add them to your application, and here you could find code snippet for testing mailers.
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Apr 12
When I worked on Best Tech Videos with Alexey Kovyrin, we faced a problem of filtering videos by category with selecting posts categories in the same query. It was easy to solve the problem, but there is one query optimization trick exists.
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