Quick Hits: Things to keep in mind

(1) Before you unpack your gems, navigate to your vendors directory:

/Users/[yourname]/[your-app]/vendor/gems: gem unpack [gem name]

It isn’t the end of the world if you don’t do it ahead of time, but it does make life slightly easier.

(2) Remember that when you find a bug, you should write a test for the expected behavior BEFORE fixing the bug.  “The Rails Way” has a great quote about testing:

“It’s not that Rails encourages you to do test-driven development, it’s that it makes it difficult for you not to do test-driven development.” ~Brian Eng

I’ve interpreted this quote into the following mantra:

“It’s not that rails makes it easy to test, it that it makes you pay when you don’t”.

Finding a bug after creating your test suite just means that you missed a test.  Take the opportunity to correct that.

Happy hacking.