--------------enigEC709D1DF60DD67CFBDD093A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > and read up on Test > Driven Development; possibly the Pragmatic book as well, although they > don't do one specific to Ruby. > Unit testing isn't strictly equal to TDD, mind you. Former is a Good Thing To Do more or less always (with no specific constraints on when to write tests, and what to test how - the point is to get you a safety net against stuff going up the proverbial creek), the latter an agile development flavour, usual disclaimers about applicability apply. In the land of TDD, fowlerettes lurk - watch out for the particularly deranged ones. (Believing lessay mocking a RDBMS instead of using a testing server is a good idea is a telltale sign of brain damage.) David Vallner --------------enigEC709D1DF60DD67CFBDD093A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFMncgy6MhrS8astoRAjjyAJ4hvxADYx3R+o1/2/OYvdGlBRFYfwCff3EJ vZbHmB6P/GBY5ua2JD24NFE0P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigEC709D1DF60DD67CFBDD093A--