Rails Rumble, a Ruby on Rails programming contest, has been officially announced. Basically it is a groups of 1-4 people who are given 48 hours to build and deploy a Ruby on Rails application.
Simple and easy to use invoices – Bamboo Invoice
As much fun as it is cutting your code on a new freelance project, there is a side to the business that we freelancers tend to forget, or just hope it will go away if we ignore it. Invoicing customers. We can work as much as we want for a customer, but unless we invoice …
LittleStreamSoftware.com
As I wrote about in a prior post, I have been starting a software company. Now I have gotten it’s website to a stage where it is available to be published. Even though the website appears to be simple, it has some advanced technology behind it. Oh course it is a completely custom site using …
Little Stream Software – Grand Opening
I am happy to announce that my new software development company, Little Stream Software, is now open for business. It’s focus will be creating easy to use web software and websites for small businesses. I have just launched the website at www.LittleStreamSoftware.com. If you know of any software projects or someone who might have a …
Testing exceptions in Rails
If you want to make sure an exception is thrown in a Rails test just use the assert_raise assertion. For example, I am testing to make sure the SQL statement is invalid after it goes through my model’s validation def test_exception c = Content.new # Title is missing assert_raise ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid do c.save end end This …