PUBLIC MARKS from amyrussell with tags ruby & agile

As I've mentioned here a few times, I have a book coming out, "Professional Ruby on Rails", available later this month. If you'd like a sneak peek, Wrox has put some samples online as PDF files. You can also just buy the book.

In this series of posts, I’m going to walk through the implementation of an interesting Ruby problem, namely, using metaprogramming to create a small DSL-like syntax for specifying tests. Here’s the problem as I notice it in my own unit testing: I tend not to go back and ensure that multiple input values for a method work — worse, I don’t often check for error conditions or possible corner cases.

I'm currently working on my third technical book (Professional Ruby On Rails, available in February, wherever fine technical books are sold). Each one has had a slightly different process, in chronological order...