Category Archives: Tutorials

Posts where I guide you through a small cross-section of how to use a piece of software or technology.

§ My Adventures with Entity Framework and Oracle

I struggle to understand the Entity Framework, and struggle even more to force it to make sense with Oracle.

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§ Custom Rails Validations

I’ve been having some trouble getting custom rails validations to work after reading Peter Marklund’s post on the topic. I finally have a configuration that works, and I’m posting it up here because

I’ve read some random posts and threads about problems with this, and Because randomly this configuration seems to stop working for me.

So here [...]

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§ Writing A Web Application In Merb Part II

More Thoughts on Our Design

As good as it is that we’ve started to play around with the model behind our web application, I feel I was flailing a little bit too much in the original article—jumping all over the place from idea to implementation. Reading over it again we get a good idea of what [...]

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§ Writing A Web Application In Merb Part I

Testing different web frameworks is a great way to not only gain knowledge about that particular framework, but to quickly (as most of the Ruby web frameworks are focused on rapid development) implement ideas you’ve had kicking around for a while. This is what I’ll be doing over the next couple weeks, with the latest [...]

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§ Ruby, RSpec and BDD Part I

Here is a bit of work on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with rspec in Ruby, based off the examples provided by this excellent Null Is Love series of posts. The only thing I know externally, in terms of BDD, is the process itself:

Write a test for the functionality you want. Watch the test fail. Write code to [...]

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