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Seth Vargo Ruby, Chef, Rants and Pants Ruby Testing Unit Testing Correctly Posted on January 12, 2013 . Featured Ruby Testing Unit Testing Correctly Posted on January 12, 2013 . Let's talk about testing. Testing is fun, it's awesome, and if you want to be agile, it's a necessity. But chances are, you're doing it wrong. Before we dive into Chef, let's look at a small Ruby example. Consider a class writes a downloads an HTML page from a website and writes the contents to a file: require 'net/http' class Scraper attr_reader :webpage def initialize ( webpage = 'http://sethvargo.com' ) @webpage = URI . parse ( webpage ) write Net :: HTTP . get ( @webpage ) end def write ( contents ) File . open ( " #{ @webpage . host } .html" , 'w' ) do | file | file . write ( contents ) end end end Scraper . new This class should download s...

Seth Vargo Seth is an open source advocate, Cheffer, and Rubyist. He's currently the czar of the misfit toys at Chef and on the core team for Berkshelf and ChefSpec. Views are his own. StackOverflow is full of children Posted by Seth Vargo on June 6th, 2014 . Featured StackOverflow is full of children Posted by Seth Vargo on June 6th, 2014 . I recently experienced one of my most negative interactions with the humans of StackOverflow. I try not to rant or rave on my blog as much as possible, but I simply cannot let this go. It all boils down to this: StackOverflow is full of children! Allow me to start with some background. I visit StackOverflow as part of my morning caffeine routine. I open each of my favorite tags in their own tab so I can triage the questions that have come in since I last checked: I go through every question that I have no...