First post!

My plan is to use this space to post challenges I’ve faced (or am facing) in the course of Ruby on Rails development, and my solutions to them, when found.  I have switched mostly to Ruby on Rails for web applications development these days. While I enjoy the power and capability of the system, I find that the documentation and community resources still leave something to be desired, so this is my way of contributing back to the community.

When posting an example or technique, it’s my intention to include both the code and the tests I wrote for it. In my experience many of the otherwise lovely Rails blogs out (e.g. the indispensible RailsCasts by Ryan Bates) there rarely include tests, and often it’s not obvious how to test a feature correctly.   The close integration of testing is, in my opinion, one of the most enticing features of Rails as a webdev framework. So I’d love to see testing become a more integral part of community technique examples and tutorials.