Monthly Archives: oktober 2009

gemcutter: the missing manual

Thanks to Jakob Kruse I now know how to operate RubyGems and gemcutter on windows. Here’s what I did:
1:I downloaded the 1.8.6 ruby installer here
2: I installed gemcutter like this:

gem update –system
gem install gemcutter
gem tumble
gem install jspec

this let me use gemcutter on windows using the current one-click installer

adventures with mingw , ruby,java, rhino and jspec

update 2009-10-21: This post is a writeup of my early experiences with gemcutter and rubygems. The strange runtime error I did not understand was probably related to that I needed to update rubygems to 1.3.5. I now know how to use gemcutter from ruby1.8.6 using the oneclick installer .
I have been using jspec on [...]

unclebob does the prime factor kata

update 2009-11-12: There is an updated version here
unclebob doing the prime factor kata:

BDD is not about testing

When talking to people about BDD and my lame example using Paris Hilton, then I got the question “it was really interesting reading about Paris Hiliton .. but what is BDD really about?.
The central insight of BDD is that TDD is really computer aided specifications of the executable behaviour of your system. BDD tries [...]