[gentoo-soc] Re: Weekly progress report (#1)

[Joachim]

Note: As usually this is slightly modified version of: post [0] on my blog.

I feel the fifth week of my project was better than weeks 3&4. May be
because I finished my exams (I still have some things to do at my
Universities but they use far less of my time).  I was a few hour behind
schedule at end of week 5. I think it was mainly because I severely
underestimated time required to switch from fixtures to Factory Girl[1]
in tests (it was a simple task but a big one ).  I added two features
visible from user perspective:

    * Listing of recruits with all questions answered.
    * Support for mentor comments for recruit answers

I didn’t finish preparing gem adding OpenID support to Hobo because I
need to include taglib and there are problems with including taglibs
that come with gems other than Hobo. For details see bug report[2] and
discussion[3]. I think I can work around this problem but I wanted to do
things I knew I could do first.

I changed a few things not visible from user perspective:

    * Started using Cucumber[4] for integration testing. I think this
will really improve my work. I already had problems because my ap was
missing view layer tests and I forgot to check something manually. I
didn’t write Cucumber features for already implemented functionalities
but I wrote features for all new stories I implemented.
    * Switched to Factory Girl for tests. And tests have really become
better because of that I think.


[0] http://ahenobarbi.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/weekly-report-5/
[1] http://textmode.at/2008/6/12/factory-girl-rails-fixture-replacement
[2]
https://hobo.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8324/tickets/743-taglib_filename-expects-template_dir-to-contain-hobo_root#ticket-743-1
[3]
http://groups.google.pl/group/hobousers/browse_thread/thread/d465d84f77a99821/5fbfe3de375fef2e
[4] http://cukes.info/

Joachim