Category Archives: Ruby

How to get the submodules of a ruby module

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Nat

I needed to be able to find out what modules were defined inside a particular ruby module. Kinda like wanting to find out what child namespaces exist for a module. It’s probably more easily explained with an example. Given the … Continue reading →

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How to connect to an Oracle database in IronRuby

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Nat

After spending a few hours trying to connect to an oracle database in ironruby using various gems, I gave up. None of the gems out there would work, each for a different reason. It was time to write my own … Continue reading →

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Testing redirects with ruby

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Nat

Testing redirects from a web app is simple enough – make a request and check the response code making sure it’s a 301, 302 or whatever you’re expecting. The test you end up writing isn’t nice idiomatic ruby though. So, … Continue reading →

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Remove junk from IronRuby cucumber output

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Nat

When running cucumber tests under IronRuby, your output will be full of junk like the following: Feature: example feature Scenario: a scenario←[90m     # features\testoutput.feature:3←[0m ←[32mGiven some test setup←[90m  # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:1←[0m←[0m ←[32mWhen I do something←[90m    # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:5←[0m←[0m ←[32mThen something happens←[90m # … Continue reading →

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TURN: test::unit reporting as it should have been…

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Nat

TURN (“Test::Unit Reporter (New)”) aims to fix test::unit‘s default output. Instead of waiting until the end of a test run for failure details, Turn displays failures immediately. It looks promising… Bookmark to:

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RQuery: A thin layer of JQuery over watir/selenium

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Nat

So I went to a presentation today, run by Aidy Lewis and Josh Chisholm about Josh’s new RQuery project; here’s a braindump of what I remember. RQuery is not supposed to be a competitor to Selenium or Watir but builds … Continue reading →

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How to test a WPF app using IronRuby and White

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Nat

…and you thought ruby was only good for web testing… So… having previously failed at getting ruby-based automated testing of WPF working, I attacked it from a different angle and succeeded! The difference is that this time I used IronRuby … Continue reading →

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