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Rails Gotcha: Mocking/Stubbing on an Associated ActiveRecord Object

February 24, 2010 – 6:34 pm

In RSpec it is still not possible to have mocks or stubs on all instances of a class, although this has been suggested and it is a feature of the Mocha framework. Stubbing or mocking an object returned by an ActiveRecord belongs_to association (i.e. article.author) won’t do what you expect. Instead of mocking the associated [...]

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Rails Tip: Safe Usage of URI.parse

January 26, 2010 – 3:41 pm

As documented already by Doug URI.parse will thrown an exception if your URL has a trailing space. It also throws an exception on invalid URLs in general. To avoid having URI.parse bomb on your pages you can use a construct like this:

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acts_as_bitfield Plugin now Radio Button Compatible

January 13, 2010 – 6:44 pm

I’ve patched the acts_as_bitfield plugin to recognize “true” as true so that now instead of having to write:
<%= f.radio_button(:email_activated, true, :checked => (”checked” if @item.email_activated?)) %> Yes
<%= f.radio_button(:email_activated, false, :checked => (”checked” unless @item.email_activated?)) %> No
you can omit the checked argument just like with ActiveRecord boolean attributes:
<%= f.radio_button(:email_activated, true) %> Yes

<%= f.radio_button(:email_activated, false) %> No

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Committing to Rails Core

March 25, 2009 – 10:46 am

In our last post we talked about upgrading to Rails 2.3, and the issues we encountered. One bug we found was that multiple POST requests issued in a test didn’t reset the post parameters between requests. The patch Peter submitted is now part of the Rails core, and we are very happy about it.
Perhaps not [...]

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A short introduction.

November 28, 2008 – 2:38 pm

Welcome to the blog! I thought it would be appropriate to shortly present Newsdesk in a post before anything else.
If you don’t know about us (and chances are small you do, unless you’re living in Sweden), we are a Swedish equivalent to PRWeb, or PR Newswire in some ways.
We are an online visibility company. Corporations [...]

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