Planet SoC

Ok, this blog isn`t about politics and I`m also not into politics, but for the first time in my life I believe a politician can really make a “real change”. Not only changes in USA, but in all the countries and the way people see the USA.

Congratulations Barack Obama !

For those you don`t know, when I attended RailsConf Europe, I came to Europe to make a live test in a job I was applying. As you know by my blog post, RailsConf Europe was great. I just wrote one post about it, but that week was incredible busy for me. I still have my notes from the second day of RailsConf, but I don`t know if I`d post them.
The fact is: I got approved (yaaayyy ). So I back to Brazil to  start arranging documentation to apply for a work permit in Spain (Madrid City). Now I`m in Madrid, working in the company. This changes a lot of things in my life, but it`ll be an amazing experience for me in any field.

For those you don`t know, when I attended RailsConf Europe, I came to Europe to make a live test in a job I was applying. As you know by my blog post, RailsConf Europe was great. I just wrote one post about it, but that week was incredible busy for me. I still have my notes from the second day of RailsConf, but I don`t know if I`d post them.
The fact is: I got approved (yaaayyy ). So I back to Brazil to start arranging documentation to apply for a work permit in Spain (Madrid City). Now I`m in Madrid, working in the company. This changes a lot of things in my life, but it`ll be an amazing experience for me in any field.

I’m starting a new section in my blog where I’m going to present and recommend talent of many areas, but all related to web development. I believe it is very important this connection with what is being created around the web and us (developers), because besides being good to inspire ourselves, it help us to became more competitive and to ensure we are in a continuous learning, always focusing in our self improvement.
I’m going to present a designer, called David Pache, who brings a minimalist style that in my point of view is something the so called web 2.0 is all about: simplicity. The designer bests creations are his logos. You can see all the process of creating a logo, as well color studies in his “dacheboard” which is kind like a blog, where he wrotes about he develop his works.

Many times I found myself running all tests just after modifying just one test method. Depending on the size of your project and its test ratio, it can be a very boring waiting for it to finish.
It can be even worse: Imagine you have other tests failing. How can you improve your productivity ?  Just use the “-n method_name” parameter for the method you want to test.

ruby pathtoyourtestcase -n methodyouwanttotest

A real example, I want to test the “testshoulddostuff” method inside my “stuffcontrollertest.rb”:

ruby test/functional/stuffcontrollertest.rb -n testshoulddostuff

Worth remember that stills load your fixtures and preforms setup, it only won’t execute the other test methods.

Many times I found myself running all tests just after modifying just one test method. Depending on the size of your project and its test ratio, it can be a very boring waiting for it to finish.
It can be even worse: Imagine you have other tests failing. How can you improve your productivity ?  Just use the “-n method_name” parameter for the method you want to test.

ruby pathtoyourtestcase -n methodyouwanttotest

A real example, I want to test the “testshoulddostuff” method inside my “stuffcontroller_test.rb”:

Ontem foi o Tutorials`s Day da RailsConf, mas só hoje que começou oficialmente a RailsConf Europe. Este ano tendo a presença do criador do framework Rails, (David Heinemeier Hansson) para apresentar o Keynote de kick-off da conferência.

Ontem foi o Tutorials`s Day da RailsConf, mas só hoje que começou oficialmente a RailsConf Europe. Este ano tendo a presença do criador do framework Rails, (David Heinemeier Hansson) para apresentar o Keynote de kick-off da conferência.

Está quase pronto o Portal UCA ( um computador por aluno) o qual irá agregar os estudos de caso realizados durante o projeto piloto com o laptop XO.
Após o término do mesmo irei disponibilizar, em alusão ao portal, um estudo de caso de como foi desenvolvido, plugins utilizados, problemas enfrentados e demais questões enfrentadas no desenvolvimento para ajudar quem está iniciando no mundo Rails, pois é uma aplicação bem simples, mas que apresenta bons detalhes pra quem está recém se aventurando com Ruby on Rails.

Sometimes I got myself thinking what makes a software have its own opinion and be considered “optioned software”. Would it be related to the language philosophy or to the programmer itself, or both of them?
People usually say Rails is a good example of optioned software. I can say I take part of the same opinion, but I’d like to take this point a little more further by not emphasizing only the software, but the programmer and how its culture could be incorporated (and not avoided) in the software it produces.