Tagged with ruby

Custom html formatter for cucumber

Written by Ben

One of the great things about cucumber is it makes it easier to work with non-technical people. You can even get them to write cucumber test for you, even non-techies can deal with plain text files.
So you’ve written your user stories and acceptance tests as a team and converted them into cucumber features and scenarios. [...]

Ruby Tip: Normalizing Hash Keys as Symbols

Written by Ben

Ruby hash keys can be any type of object apart from an integer, but typically they are used in two ways when coding a rails app.
With string keys:
{”a” => “hash”}
Or symbol keys:
{:a => “hash”}
When writing a method that uses a hash of arguments you should handle both styles of hashes. There are a number of [...]