If you are creating Ruby on Rails application like a blog, you most probably want to generate URLs using post titles. It’s good practice, because search engines like keywords in URL, and it looks more human-readable. Just compare: http://example.com/posts/10 and http://example.com/posts/generating-permalinks-from-string (yeah, it’s long, but self-descriptive). Anyways, this is small post about converting a title to a permalink.
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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:
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| 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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Rails is just an interface to the memcached?
Cache the Hell out Everything
90% API Requests — cache them
Read the Scaling Twitter.
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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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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