Cucumber is sold as "Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy", according to their website. I've not had the opportunity to use full BDD testing in my day job for some time, in fact probably never - my last foray into testing was probably JUnit in my Java days... so I know it's about ti
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When deciding what database to use for my application rewrite, I went through a few options, including the usual options like MySQL, some hard options like triple stores (not a silly idea in itself, but just too much for this application) and then settled on CouchDB. I knew a little about this pr
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I've been using Sinatra now for about six months all in, as I decided to learn more Ruby, and for sites that aren't 'big' enough for Rails. Another reason for using Sinatra, was to deploy application on Google App Engine via JRuby and it was during this, that I decided that Sinatra wasn't just fo
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I've decided to start blogging again and while looking for inspiration about what to blog about, I came across Chris Storm's My Chain post, which is just what I was looking for! I've been reading Chris' posts about converting his site from Rails to something running on CouchDB for a while now, wi
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