Category Archives: Services

Configuring Exception Handling in RSpec and Controller Tests

January 15, 2010 – 11:37 am

The ActionController::Rescue module in Rails defines a number of exceptions that will trigger a 404 response, namely ActionController::RoutingError, ActionController::UnknownAction, and ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound. However if you trigger one of those exceptions in a controller test (Test::Unit or Rspec) then rescue and display of the 404 page will not happen and instead the exception will just be propagated. [...]

By peter | Also posted in Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Rails I18n and 404/500 Error Pages

January 13, 2010 – 2:34 pm

If you have a multilingual site it makes sense for your 404 and 500 error pages to be multilingual as well. Rails supports multilinguality by serving up error pages with a path like public/500.sv.html, where sv is the locale. In the case where Rails itself is fundamentally broken or fails to respond your webserver will [...]

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Simplest bit.ly API implementation possible?

July 2, 2009 – 6:03 pm

To use an URL shortener in your project, I would strongly recommend bit.ly. It let you set a custom URL (name) and track traffic, clicks and conversations on micro blogs. But best of all, it should be super-fast and super-stable, since Twitter recently chose bit.ly as their default URL shortening service.
Using the bit.ly REST API [...]

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