Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category

The (Some) Fallacies of Test First Development

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

I should first clarify that I would never come out against the idea of writing tests for your code. I find testing to be a wonderful way to aid refactoring, fight regression, and build developmental confidence in a piece of software. Lately I have tried to provide significant test ...

Thoughts on deploying ruby apps without capistrano

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

I recently left the ruby deployment team forĀ  large managed rails-based hosting provider. We used capistrano for our deployment needs. Once we had successfully configured an application and its dependencies we would hand over a very robust capistrano recipe to the end user and it turns out that almost all ...