Figuring it out and sharing what I find along the way.
I just finished up week 5 of the 3rd course at Tealeaf Academy. This week didn't focus on as many new features as the previous weeks. We added the ability to invite a friend to join the site (We are working on a NetFlix clone). When the inviter in...
We covered a whole lot this week, I learned quite a few new things. A few things stood out however. Testing non-standard models with Shoulda matchers in RSpec.
The first part of this week basically dealt with refactoring RSpec code by using macros and shared examples. These are really helpful because common things like checking to make sure an unauthenticated user is redirected to the sign in page if the...
This week was really great for me. I think I am really starting to get the hang of the testing process and test driven design. In the first week and for most the of the first half of this week, I had to kind of hobble along, not writing much code ...
So it took a little longer than a week, but I have finished up the first "week" of course 3 at Tealeaf. This course focuses on Test Driven Development (TDD) and the main project is building a NetFlix clone.