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ThoughtWorks team uses Mocha

over 5 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
It’s good to see that a team from my old company has caught the Mocha bug… Jay Fields describes how his team have been using Mocha to achieve...

Ruby on Rails uses Mocha to test frameworks

over 5 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
So thanks to Kev Clark’s interest and hard work, it looks like Mocha is being used to improve test coverage in some of the Rails frameworks –...

New Mocha Docs

over 5 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
Spurred on by Thorsten’s comment on Gluttonous’ blog and a mention of Mocha in the Top 5 Rails Stories of the Week, I’ve given the Mocha...

Mocha Quickstart

over 5 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
I really must get round to writing some better documentation for Mocha, but in the meantime here’s a quickstart guide1. Mocha adds a couple of...

Injecting mocks (the Mocha way)

over 5 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
I thought I’d compare and contrast the way Gluttonous was injecting mocks and how you can do it with Mocha. Gluttonous’ way def test_process_exit...

Mocks on Rails

over 5 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
It’s great to see that Gluttonous has been playing with Mocha. Like many people, he’s found the ability to mock or stub class methods particularly...

Mocha 0.3 released with Rails plugin

over 5 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
A new version of the Mocha mocking and stubbing library developed at Reevoo has been released. There is now a Ruby on Rails plugin which can be installed...

Lunch stop on a Norwegian ski tour

almost 6 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
Hannah, James & Nick stop for lunch in a snowhole. Just to prove that I can now blog1 from Flickr to my blog – hurrah! I was seeing this...

Blizzard: Race to the Pole

almost 6 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
I was slightly startled, but very pleased to see my old mucker Rory O’Connor on TV last night. He was on BBC2’s programme about the race to...

Fed up with Rails fixtures? (part two)

almost 6 years ago by James Mead on Floehopper.
Previously I described how you can write unit tests for ActiveRecord models without using fixtures – just using models in memory. Although only a...