Ruby5 #469

Ruby5 - Episode #469 - June 3rd, 2014

• Codeship
  • Continuous Deployment Service
  • Hosted Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. The Codeship.
• RSpec 3
  • Removed support for Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.9.1
  • Improved Ruby 2.x support
  • New rspec-support gem
    • rspec-support
  • Robust, well-tested upgrade process
  • Improved Docs
  • Gems are now signed
  • Zero monkey patching mode
  • New names for hook scopes: :example and :context
  • DSL methods yield the example as an argument
    • RSpec::Core::Example provides access to all the details about an example
  • New expose_dsl_globally config option to disable rspec-core monkey patching
  • Define example group aliases with alias_example_group_to
  • New example group aliases: xdescribe, xcontext, fdescribe, fcontext
  • Changes to pending semantics (and introduction of skip)
  • New API for one-liners: is_expected
  • Example groups can be ordered individually
  • New ordering strategy API
    • config.register_ordering(:description_length) do |list|
      • list.sort_by { |item| item.description.length }
  • rspec --init improvements
  • New --dry-run CLI option
  • Formatter API changes
  • Assertion config changes
  • Define derived metadata
  • Removals
  • rspec-expectations, rspec-mocks, rspec-rails
• Git 2.0.0
  • ‘git push’ default has changed
  • ‘git add’ in directory
  • ‘git add’ adds removals
• bower-rails
  • rake tasks for bower on rails
  • JSON configuration
    • rails g bower_rails:initialize json
• JSON responses with PostgreSQL
  • how to craft a huge Postgres query that will generate pure JSON much quicker than Rails
  • 10X faster than plain
• Serialization & Enumeration
  • module Enumerable ; def as_json

♫ JUNIP - Far Away

by Shazam