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by genericsteele 12y ago
But then how could I monetize it? I don't think I could run adverts on someone else's service?
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by genericsteele 12y ago
Yes, but I think it would be fun to gamify it somehow.
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by genericsteele 12y ago
Idea: StackOverflow for comebacks I've always had a hard time coming up with a good comeback in conversations. It would be great to have a site where I could post a situation and have the community suggest and upvote/downvote insu
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by genericsteele 12y ago
Idea: A paid, members-only app where people can post and discuss their ideas.
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by genericsteele 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Rails MVP and Testing Consulting | Philadelphia, PA | Remote http://iamericsteele.com hi@iamericstele.com ----------------------------------------- MVP Ruby on Rails Consulting and Development --------------------
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by genericsteele 13y ago
That's the best of both worlds. I'm going to give this a try.
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Getting Friendly with Rails Fixtures(whatdoitest.com)
9 points by genericsteele 13y ago|2 comments
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by genericsteele 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Rails MVP and Testing Consulting | Philadelphia, PA | Remote http://iamericsteele.com hi@iamericstele.com ----------------------------------------- MVP Ruby on Rails Consulting and Development --------------------
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by genericsteele 13y ago
1) is pretty hard, but I'm tackling some basic strategies to adding tests to an untested mass of code. 2) is the entire reason why I'm writing the book. Building a testing habit isn't as simple as following some basic tutoria
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by genericsteele 13y ago
Yeah I did. 1) Inheriting someone else's bad code and habits is a huge reason to throw testing out the window. It's really frustrating and always comes with a "We'll write tests in the future ." 2) This goes in lin
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by genericsteele 13y ago
A year ago, I would have agreed with you. There's nothing stopping you from building a successful product without writing tests. Since I built the habit of writing tests, though, It definitely makes a difference, especially if you&#x27
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Why We Don't Write Tests(whatdoitest.com)
14 points by genericsteele 13y ago|16 comments
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A Rails Assertion cheat sheet ordered by popularity on Github(whatdoitest.com)
5 points by genericsteele 13y ago|0 comments
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by genericsteele 14y ago
Sorry about that. It lazily checked for two characters before the @ instead of one. It should work now: http://whatdoitest.com/
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by genericsteele 14y ago
Fixed. Thanks.
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by genericsteele 14y ago
Yes! Michael Hardt's tutorial is the culprit for me as well.
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by genericsteele 14y ago
Computers don't understand english very well. It's easier for us to learn to talk to them, than to teach them how to understand us. DSLs are helpful for some, but sometimes they get in my way. A good example is formtastic ( http://github.co
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by genericsteele 14y ago
"For me it was a simple decision: If I want community support, I need to be using the tool the community is actually supporting." Truth. And the community is really split on this one. The side that makes the decisions about what goes into
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by genericsteele 14y ago
My theory is that new Rails developers spend more time learning how to test than what to test. This article isn't necessarily about which framework is better, but more about which is better as a testing learning tool. It's been pretty cool
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by genericsteele 14y ago
OP here. MiniTest::Spec is great, and knocks out two of my complaints in the article: * Expectations are readable and writable * The docs are very easy to digest: http://bfts.rubyforge.org/minitest/MiniTest/Expectations.htm... I don't rec
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Learn how to test Rails using Test::Unit instead of Rspec(whatdoitest.com)
45 points by genericsteele 14y ago|50 comments
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What do I Test: a guide to finally understanding Rails testing(whatdoitest.com)
8 points by genericsteele 14y ago|0 comments
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by genericsteele 14y ago
This is great. Two weekends ago I did the same type of migration using Linode and Capistrano. Heroku taught us what we should expect from a platform, and it seems like, as a community, we're moving towards getting those great features ourse
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Zepto 1.0 Released(mir.aculo.us)
1 points by genericsteele 14y ago|0 comments
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Sellmer is a toolset for selling digital goods.(justsellstuff.com)
1 points by genericsteele 14y ago|0 comments
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Fuck this PayPal Bullshit(twitterfordogs.com)
1 points by genericsteele 14y ago|0 comments
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by genericsteele 14y ago
Love it.
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by genericsteele 14y ago
Almost...
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Saving Ideas(ideainator.com)
1 points by genericsteele 16y ago|0 comments
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by genericsteele 16y ago
Good point. Really there are a lot of questions that someone who has an idea should ask themselves about an idea. This could turn into a series on ideainator, now that I think about it.

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