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I’ve watched the same mistake a dozen times over twenty years, and it never looks like a mistake when it happens.

I spent this past weekend angry at an AI agent.

Part 6 of Fixtures on Purpose, a series about designing test data for Rails.

Part 5 of Fixtures on Purpose, a series about designing test data for Rails.

Part 4 of Fixtures on Purpose, a series about designing test data for Rails.

Part 3 of Fixtures on Purpose, a series about designing test data for Rails.

Part 2 of Fixtures on Purpose, a series about designing test data for Rails.

Part 1 of Fixtures on Purpose, a series about designing test data for Rails.

I’ve been writing Rails tests for a long time.

Rails 6.0 is just almost here, and new features means more things to test and more ways to test them!

The promise of making games is what brought many of us to programming.

I like Ruby.

Let me tell you of an inside joke that plays out at Ruby conferences.

Rails 4 is out, and among its many improvements is upgrading the default testing library from Test::Unit to Minitest.

When I started in Ruby I was intimidated by testing.

tl;dr: The newest minitest and minitest-rails are awesome.

What makes code good?

I run a small but successful Ruby conference.

RubyConf 2012 is coming up.

One of the things that bothers me when developing Rails apps is where tests are placed by default.

Yesterday I released version 0.1 of minitest-rails, a library that enables you to test your Rails 3 apps using minitest.

I gave a session titled “Presenters and Decorators: A Code Tour” at RailsConf 2012.

I had a great time presenting at Ruby on Ales 2012.

Okay, so its been a couple years.

This year at MountainWest RubyConf 2008 we had a slew of books and t-shirts to give away to attendees.

We’re in the midst of MountainWest RubyConf 2008, and I have lots I want to blog about it.

Saturday I gave a session at the third Boise Code Camp.

Please excuse this non-geeky post, but today was harrowing and quite the tale.

I don’t like talking about myself much, I’d rather talk about how to do stuff or what I think the best way to do said stuff is.

John Lam recently responded to a post by M.

So, Bertrand Le Roy left a comment on my previous post calling me out for saying, “static languages have failed”.

Chad Myers gave me a nice little surprise by using my surname in his blog post “Moore on the Anonymous Delegate Approach” about an approach to make his statically-typed C# code more easily testable.

A couple days ago Cote asked “Is Web 2.0 the middle-agers web?”

At work I’m on Windows and behind a proxy server.

Last weekend the ALT.NET Conf I had a couple opportunities to plead my case for Microsoft to embrace the Ruby on Rails framework and better enable it on IIS.

Now that I’m blogging again, and I’ve had a resurgence of .NET related posts, I thought I’d add to a meme I saw going around earlier this summer.

Today was abbreviated with only two sessions this morning and then a combined closing session.

The next day of the ALT.NET Conference started with me sleeping in and missing the opening announcements.

I’m at the ALT.NET Conference this weekend to gain a better understanding of where the .NET community is heading and to spread some Ruby love.

Here are my notes from Day 1.

They guys at Queensland University of Technology announced the public beta of their Gardens Point .NET Ruby compiler yesterday.

Craig Shoemaker of the Polymorphic Podcast has just posted part one of his interview with author Dr.

I am not an expert on this subject, although I play one on the Internet.

Don Box may be a few weeks late to James Gosling’s comments about Ruby, but he does pay Ruby a nice compliment.

The first Boise Code Camp was this past weekend.

I attended the local .NET user group last night and had a few people approach me about Boise Ruby Brigade (The first meeting is next week!

Well, I finally did it.

This has been a difficult week for me.

Ruby on Rails is a framework that makes it easier to develop, deploy, and maintain web applications.

Despite any appearances to the contrary, objects are not something you do; objects are a way that you think.