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Ruby 1.9 I18n and Mashup Testing
http://www.tbray.org/ ongoing/ When/ 200x/ 2008/ 05/ 04/ Ruby-1.9-i18n-code
A couple of points on that PDML + Twitter mashup. First, yet another homily saying “Please unit test”. Second, some commenters wanted to see the code even though it’s trivial, and I found a reason to agree. TDD I was just sketching this in on a lark, so why, I thought, go all bureaucratic with unit testing? Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. A PESO came along that broke the code, so I fixed it and broke some other code. On that path lies madness. So I did the right thing: looked at the code, realized that if it were to be testable, it needed to be refactored, and hey, the refactoring made it better.
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