on Thursday, August 23, 2012
I was running a specific rspec over and over during a tight development cycle. The way our system was set up it was taking 30+ sec to run a single spec file, which made running them onerous.


We had Spork running at one point, but it wasn't working for me, with a "undefined method 'flush' for nil:NilClass" error (and a couple of others depending on the incantation):




After upgrading Spork (we
on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Ever write a trivial spec like this:


And get something totally baffling back, like this?


Backstory: Refactoring some pre-written classes to use metaprogramming to create some methods and values. I wanted specs in place before starting the metaprogramming to avoid breaking things.

In retrospect, I should have figured this out sooner. In my defense, I love the Olympics and was distracted. The