October 2011
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Integrations tests and Devise Login
Yesterday I started doing a new project using devise gem to manage login features. When I started to do integration tests using rspec, I found a problem: devise test helpers doesn’t work with rspec integration test. So this is a quick solution to fix this. require 'spec_helper' include Warden::Test::Helpers describe "UserDashboards" do before(:each) do @user =...
Oct 27th
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Short tips to create a great API
The last projects that I have worked had a API for external client access, I learned a lot with those projects and here I gonna share with you what I learned. HTTP You must to understand how HTTP protocol works. This is the first and more important thing. Use HTTP verbs - Your api must be able to understand what we expect that it does if for example a request with put verb is received....
Oct 21st
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PostgreSQL and Postgis on Mac OS Lion
Recently I had some problems with Mac OS Lion and I decided to do a clean install. So all went well until I decided to install PostgreSQL with spatial extension called postgis and so the problems began. My friend Kleber gave me a Gist with some simple steps to install postgresql and postgis after Lion update. So I was trying to follow those steps but it’s didn’t work. So I...
Oct 3rd