RSpec is really, really awesome

Tonight I found out that RSpec is coding zen. For real! It was the first time I'd written my specs BEFORE the code (like you're sposed' to) and it just made my job a LOT easier. Here's what happened: I wrote the specs: describe "#make_urls" do   it "should replace /s with a +" do     make_urls(["oranges apples"]).should == ["oranges+apples"]   end end While I was writing the code, I'd accidentally used a method for string on an array. Upon testing the code, I couldn't, for the life of me, figure it out. Back in the day...

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Breaking Ruby code up into methods

I wanted to try out RSpec so that I could more easily test my Ruby code, but had to break it up into methods. Going from this code to something nice and easy to test with RSpec was very difficult for me as I still have problems writing methods. After receiving help on StackOverflow on how to set up the methods, I was able to fill in the blank spots. While I'm not really "on my own" with writing methods, this was definitely a good exercise in getting me where I want to be with that. In the same night, I was able to figure out how to use RSpec...

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Trying out RSpec for SERP checker

In my latest project, I am rewriting a PHP script that checks the SERPs of a website in various search engines. In the original PHP script there were several lines of code that weren't needed. There also are problems with how the script "pulls" links from Google... it's not really a problem, per se, but a strange way to go about it. In adapting this code to Ruby, I decided to start out by just having it check Google SERPs, so the original PHP script has been edited in order to make my job of rewriting the script in Ruby a lot easier. I intend,...

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