I thought that I’ll just jump and get my hand dirty. All this guys write tests like ninjas, isn’t it cool ? I also want to be cool and start from red and celebrate on green. Not a big objective than getting confortable in the new environment. For this: I’ve attended NYC Ruby Hack Fest; reviewed my Google Reader feeds to pool the best Ruby and Rails resources and I’ve bought me an iMac.

What did you say about testing ?

• What should be red?
• Where do you start from feature, story, acceptance criteria ?
• How do you test: model, controller, view ?
• Which kind of testing do you do interaction, state ?
• How do you express your knowledge ?
• How do you do regression ?
• Which tools do you use for testing ?

Probably there are better resources to answer my questions but I’ve found this Rspec book and I did not get disappointed.

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Really, I’m curious how do they get things done? This was the last task in the “Passionate programmer” book which I’ve finished to read 30 minutes ago.

Currently I’m a .net guy with some experience which makes me confortable of being marketed with 95-120k per year. This does not say much, but at least points on the segment of salary ranges where I belong.

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Another day to do cool stuff in Ruby on Rails world. The goal for today is to set some targets for the near future. This will not set the final shot but rather direction. Don’t get disappointed if at some point we will drop one or another idea. It’s a learning process and what now seems reasonable in some time may be not.

Like usually before doing I spend some time on google to see how the people do it. And here is what I have so far:

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Here I will prepare for actual work. The environment is:

1. Ruby on rails - Windows 7
2. Ruby Mine 3.1.1
3. Focus Booster 

I’ve installed the Focus booster and here we go. 0   1         2  …. this is the first pomodoro.

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This is another crazy idea. Now I’m going to write as I go, how to move from blog engine X to Y. X is mine, why Y also mine ? The lesson learned is:

if you are not mistaken you are not learning anything

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