Author Archives: Carol

attach_file with cucumber+capybara+selenium on Windows

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Carol

Yesterday I was working with some scenarios having to do with file upload, and I thought they were failing because of something I was doing in the code, but they were not failing for my colleague on a mac (you … Continue reading →

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Another day in the life of a Windows+Ruby dev

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Carol

So today I decided to try to fix issue 358 of cucumber. I’m not even to the point of reproducing the bug yet. *sigh* So I checked out the cucumber source and tried to install it, at which point rake … Continue reading →

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NFL Playoffs Infographic Usability Fail

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Carol

I’m going to make my first post on this here blog about user experience and more specifically the usability of the graphics discussing the NFL playoffs. User experience and watching American football are other passions of mine in addition to … Continue reading →

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Entitled vs. Elitist

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Carol

There’s a thread on reddit that asks “What is the biggest current problem in the Ruby community?” that I found to be very interesting. Among comments about performance, documentation, scientific and math libraries and an IDE was a bit of … Continue reading →

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Top 5 reasons I develop in Ruby on Windows

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Carol

Here’s the post that Andrew has been waiting for: why I continue to try to develop Ruby in Windows rather than give up and switch to a Mac. Here, in order from least compelling at #5: I’m more comfortable with … Continue reading →

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Bundler seems to be helping to prevent name conflicts

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Carol

So I’m not totally sure because I’m (obviously) not all that familiar with bundler, but it seems that if I have done a bundle install with a Gemfile where cucumber (and thus term-ansicolor) is included, “rails generate model Term” fails … Continue reading →

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Learning Bundler

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Carol

So after I figured out how to fix the cross-thread violations due to the json gem, and the other problems I ran into, I reproduced the bug I was actually attempting to fix. Then I checked out cucumber, changed my … Continue reading →

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cucumber + win32console, continued

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Carol

So since I didn’t have too much luck last night in getting win32console installed and Cucumber to recognize that I had win32console installed, I decided to try looking for the other problem I was seeing: “uninitialized constant win32″. Googling that … Continue reading →

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Let’s try this again, shall we? win32console problems

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Carol

So after last night’s attempt to get a working windows+ruby+rails+cucumber environment and the blogging thereof, I was ready to make some real progress tonight. No dice. I got through a handful more commands in the RSpec book before I hit … Continue reading →

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[BUG] cross-thread violation on rb_gc()

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Carol

The Problem: When I ran: > rails generate rspec:install > rails generate cucumber:install I got: [BUG] cross-thread violation on rb_gc() (null) This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team … Continue reading →

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