Hacking Journal [2006/01/27]
h3. SysAdmin and TDD Rails
[2006/01/27]
Been a while since my last update but the past two weeks have been hectic. I took the Linux server live at work and got to fight the email daemons to work. Everything seems to be running fine now, even got personal Spamassassin and Procmail configs for all the users (and am using procmail to make a simple mailing list).
Today I also was able to put some work in on a new website that will run Ruby on Rails. I implemented a text search engine to search on the content that we will have there. Surprisingly it worked rather well. Even better I am now doing Test Driven Development about 80% of the time now. I think the application currently stands at over 2000 lines of code, 500 of which are application code and 1500 is test code. I really need to refactor my models and methods on it though as they are pretty bizarre. All in all, Rails is a great framework, and learning Ruby really is paying off now.
Eric Davis
