Patrick Sullivan pragmaticpat-zz

I'm a product leader, designer, developer, marketer and entrepreneur with experience in Fitness, Insurance, Healthcare and Regulated Waste

pragmaticpat-zz / gist:2210413

Created March 26, 2012 22:54

hydrating nokogiri html object from a file in one line. cool!

File.open(source_file_name, "r") { |f| page = Nokogiri::HTML(f.read()) }

pragmaticpat-zz / sample.rb

Created February 25, 2012 15:32

Rails 3.1 STI

	class Wod < ActiveRecord::Base
	HOST_BOX_NAME = "CrossFit HQ"

	def from_html crossfit_hq_source
	page = Nokogiri::HTML(crossfit_hq_source)
	self.date = Date.parse(page.search("//h3")[0].inner_text.split[1]).to_s
	self.details = page.search("//p")[0].inner_text
	if(hero_wod \|\| games_wod)
	self.details << "\n" << page.search("//p")[1].inner_html.gsub(/<br>/,"\n")
	end

pragmaticpat-zz / rspec-given-when-to-start-eval

Created January 14, 2012 19:35

Wondering if it's by design that rspec-given will not evaluate missing methods until "then" is present

	require 'concept_im_evolving'
	require 'rspec/given'


	#Sample1: Run rspec >> No examples found.
	describe ConceptImEvolving do
	Given (:getter) { ConceptImEvolving.new }
	context "when there is a new item" do
	When { getter.get_latest_item("some_uri") }
	end

pragmaticpat-zz / generic search step

Created October 15, 2011 23:58

A bad way to check for content with cucumber / capybara?

	Then /^I should see$/ do \|table\|
	table.hashes.each do \|stuff\|
	stuff.keys.each { \|key\| page.should have_content stuff[key] }
	end
	end

pragmaticpat-zz / stuff

Created September 24, 2011 13:59

rental management

	1 Feature: Manage rentals
	2 In order to optimize my investments
	3 As a rental baron
	4 I want to be able to manage my rentals
	5
	6 Scenario Outline: Rental count
	7 Given I have <number> rentals
	8 When I go to the rentals page
	9 Then I should see "<number> rentals found"
	10

	Then /^I should see$/ do \|table\|
	table.hashes.each do \|stuff\|
	stuff.keys.each { \|key\| page.should have_content stuff[key] }
	end
	end