Category Archives: ruby

Quick Hits: Setting the User Agent Header in Webrat

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Brad

If you’ve read the new PragProg beta e-book on RSpec, you may have read that you can set HTTP headers for your Webrat request like so: Given /^I am browsing the site using Safari$/ do header "User-Agent" , "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; … Continue reading →

Share
Posted in Rails, ruby, Testing | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Ruby/Hadoop talk on Tuesday

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Brad

A note for interested parties: I (Brad) will be giving a short (10-15 minute) talk on using Ruby with Hadoop for distributed computing. The plan is to give an ultra-brief description of the MapReduce algorithm and Hadoop, show 2 examples … Continue reading →

Share
Posted in Events, hadoop, ruby | Comments Off