http://www.timocracy.com/articles/2008/03/29/mountain-west-ruby-conference-day-two-midday en-us 40 Tim Connor's Blog <h2>Ruby Internals &#8211; Patrick Farley</h2> <p>This talk is actually the hard-core internals as advertised. Dig up the slides and prepare for some C. Well presented, though. Nice object-graphs/diagrams. Might be worth listening to the video, not just the slides if you are interested, as he seems to explain well. Lots of Star Wars slides/humor. Seems to be a theme since Giles&#8217; Darth Vader/sombrero slide (note to <span class="caps">DHS</span>: Sith Lords could be sneaking across our unsecured border)</p> <h2><span class="caps">BDD</span> with Shoulda &#8211; Tammer Saleh</h2> <p>General <span class="caps">BDD</span> soft sell followed with same for Shoulda &#8211; one line of spec for one line of code. Argument for testing AR association as such, not testing what they do. Overmocking &#8211; still haven&#8217;t found a good answer myself. I do agree that nested contexts help.</p> <p>Related: got into debate about mocking/whitebox/glassbox/inside-of-contract vs. non-mocked/blackbox/outside-of-contract testing. I am firming up my thoughts on having both and calling them &#8220;unit&#8221; and &#8220;functional&#8221; specs/tests. During refactor functionals must pass and you rewrite units as the <span class="caps">BDD</span> process for your refactor. Rando (in conf irc, no idea who) seemed to follow similar practice, which is the first non-PDI response I have gotten.</p> Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:09:00 -0700 urn:uuid:4293556c-9db5-4a4e-aa42-a074d3487a8a Tim Connor http://www.timocracy.com/articles/2008/03/29/mountain-west-ruby-conference-day-two-midday Rails conf