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I had some issues trying to use a symbol
session[:user_credentials_id]
vs. a string
session["user_credentials_id"]
Here is my solution:
require ‘test_helper’
class LoginTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
context ‘A user’ do
setup do
@user = Factory(:user)
# puts @user.inspect
end
should ‘be able [...]
Many of my colleagues in the Ruby on Rails community have been posting a “tools of the trade” blog post, covering their hardware and software preferences. Now that I am nearly Microsoft-free, I figured I’d update my list.
Hardware
Apple Mac Pro 8-core Xeon, 10GB RAM, 320GB + 500GB 7200rpm SATA drives. This is my main box [...]
This one was a toughy. I installed PostgreSQL 8.4 from source in /usr/local/pgsql. Install the gem as follows:
sudo -s
export PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:${PATH}
env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install pg
Seed-fu is advanced seed data handling for Rails, combining the best practices of several methods together.
Here’s how to use seed-fu with users and roles (I use Authlogic and acl9):
Here’s my current Rails 2.3 application template which uses the following features:
asset_packager
exception_notifier
paperclip
restful-authentication (generates user and session)
role-requirement (generates roles for user)
rspec
cucumber
active_merchant
sqlite3-ruby
will_paginate
haml
nifty_layout
Capistrano capify
database session store
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