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Rails Integration Test with shoulda, factory_girl, webrat, and authlogic

Posted on February 25, 2010, 3:22 PM, by Mark A. Richman, under rails, ruby.

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 [...]

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Tools of the Trade

Posted on October 14, 2009, 9:10 AM, by Mark A. Richman, under General, Tools, guitar, postgresql, rails, ruby.

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 [...]

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How to install pg (postgresql) gem on Snow Leopard, 64 bit

Posted on October 3, 2009, 10:12 PM, by Mark A. Richman, under postgresql, rails, ruby.

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

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