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Less Magic, Please

My development style tends towards less and less metaprogramming and magic these days. Its not for lack of ability or lack of capable coworkers. I work with some pretty sharp people, and I know they can grok whatever sort of voodoo method_missing module_eval mysticism I can throw at them. But lately I […]

Overriding setup in Rail’s test_helper - impossible?

Is there a way that will just work for adding common setup code to test_helper? None of the below work:

# this breaks fixtures in the acts_as_authenticated account_controller_test (but nowhere else, for some reason)...
  def setup
  end

# this breaks things all over the place
  def setup
     super
  end

# this is the way I think [...]

iPhone price whining

I find it strange that Russ is complaining about today's iPhone price drop of $200. Russ is knows how fast the mobile market moves, so he should know better. He says:
Happily screwing the early adopters and rewarding the laggards is something only Apple can do with a smile, no?
No, actually, its pretty much [...]