http://www.marekj.com cooperative software production infrastructure building Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:49:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_9177, from lassekoskela. http://www.marekj.com/2008/08/img_9177/ UPDATE. I guess I will just write on gist.github.com http://www.marekj.com/2008/07/tinytutorial-yielding-value-back-to-block/ Consider this irb section: irb(main):003:0> class Bla; end => nil irb(main):004:0> b = Bla.new => # irb(main):005:0> b.class => Bla irb(main):006:0> b.new NoMethodError: undefined method `new' for # irb(main):007:0> c = Class.new => # irb(main):008:0> c.new => #<#:0x2b5f570> irb(main):009:0> c.class => Class So, an interesting thing happened here. The variable ‘c’ is an instance of a class Class and you can create another instance of ... http://www.marekj.com/2008/07/classes-are-objects-objects-are-classes/ On one of my Vista machines I just reinstalled ruby using 1.8.6-26 (one click installer) and watir 1.5.6 Of course I will need to reinstall all other gems because they perished when I uninstalled ruby 1.8.4-25 (yes, sometimes it's nice to clean up and start again.) So Ruby 1.8.9-26 bundles gem 0.9.4. ... http://www.marekj.com/2008/06/watir-156-and-ruby-186-26/ Just installed rubygem punch (depends on rubygems: main, chronic, attributes, arrayfields, systemu, orderhash) on windows. and the first try 'puch help I got the error: couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~' (ArgumentError). Looks like windows problem... so on my machine I changed to: Home = File.expand_path(ENV['USERPROFILE']) # C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\punch-0.0.2\bin\punch:313 all is well. http://www.marekj.com/2008/06/ruby_gem_punch/ I have just discovered that you can do this # lets say ARGV has 3 items [1, 2, 3] # the following: a, b, c = ARGV # will make this #=> a=1, b=2, c=3 I didn't know you can do this. I just ready it in one of the examples somewhere and I can't find ... http://www.marekj.com/2008/06/assignment-to-variables-from-argv-array-on-one-line/ I saw this really nice way of setting behaviour. You call a Student object which has a method formal_greeting that delegates to say_hi, but say_hi is aliasing say_hello which calls a superclass since the say_hello of Student is declared below. class Person def say_hello puts 'how do ... http://www.marekj.com/2008/06/strategy-by-delagating-to-an-alias/ Looking at watir code there is a nice patterns for accepting defaults for 'how' in method names for elements. Currently for frame, form and button. like this: I like this solution for my test framework. I have been thinking of making a small change to my snagit screenshot. Basically be default ... http://www.marekj.com/2008/04/processing-defaults-in-watir-elements/ Here is what I had with win32screenshot and RMagick (later replaced with Snagit) # Runtime Test Housekeeping place module TestRun # at runtime takes a screenshot of the desktop and saves it in log dir. # you must install win32screenshot gem and RMagic package for this to work. ... http://www.marekj.com/2008/04/desktop-screenshots-with-watir-win32screenshot-and-rmagick/ In a Story or UseCase for Web Application you can decompose a test into 3 acts. or Steps. (Actually I don't like to speak of Preconditions and Steps. I much rather speak of Context and Acts in a Web Application testing). class ThreeStepTest attr_accessor :context # config ... http://www.marekj.com/2008/04/doing-the-web-test-in-3-acts/