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Re: Lowdown - our Rails Rumble '09 Application - sean cribbs :: digital renaissance man

Sean Cribbs — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:23:49 -0000

@Ryan Yes, in retrospect that could have solved our most egregious errors, including our half-broken login/signup code. However, I'm not certain that some pieces would have been completed - in my opinion, the thought-time necessary to write good tests would have slowed us down too much. We did our best without them, but we're now going back and writing Cucumber for the existing features (in the app, no less).

Re: Lowdown - our Rails Rumble '09 Application - sean cribbs :: digital renaissance man

Sean Cribbs — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:13:32 -0000

@claymation Yes, we do! We will be launching an updated/bugfixed site after the judging is over. Technical difficulties (read: a static URL in one of our generated emails) prevent us from moving the lowdownapp.com domain name just yet without being disqualified.

Re: Lowdown - our Rails Rumble '09 Application - sean cribbs :: digital renaissance man

claymation — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:11:03 -0000

Fabulous awesome. Do you plan to keep hacking on it?

Re: Lowdown - our Rails Rumble '09 Application - sean cribbs :: digital renaissance man

François Beausoleil — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:47:46 -0000

This is a very good idea. We wrote unit tests, and some functional tests for ours, but didn't bother with full-on integration features tests.

Good luck, and I hope this really develops into something bigger. Make sure you look at Pivotal Tracker, as it's the tool I currently and I like it.

Re: Lowdown - our Rails Rumble '09 Application - sean cribbs :: digital renaissance man

jgarber — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:59:27 -0000

Great concept and amazing execution! All the best in turning it into a small business (I'd sign up!)

Re: Lowdown - our Rails Rumble '09 Application - sean cribbs :: digital renaissance man

saturnflyer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:26:45 -0000

Nice work. I played with the same idea a few months ago, but never got it completed. I'm excited to see where it goes. Good luck!

Re: Lowdown - our Rails Rumble '09 Application - sean cribbs :: digital renaissance man

Ryan Bates — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:53:19 -0000

Great job on the app! That's interesting you did not have any tests. I agree a full BDD is not practical for a rumble, but a simple set of high-level integration tests to run each action I find to be invaluable. This way all code is executed and any obvious errors are raised.