Everyday Rails Testing
with RSpec is my first book! Learn how to test your
Rails applications the way I did and test with confidence, by focusing on core technologies and
simple, readable tests that pass. Learn more.
Everyday Rails is a blog for
people who need to build stuff with Rails and get on to their next
project. I started it in 2010 to help beginner and intermediate Rails
developers be productive while still learning the ropes.
Recent posts
- May 2019 update
- April 2019 update
- March 2019 update
- Initial impressions after migrating this site to Netlify
- February 2019 update
Now reading
- Franklin Steak: Dry-Aged. Live-Fired. Pure Beef. (Aaron Franklin, Jordan Mackay; Ten Speed Press)
- Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (Sarah Smarsh; Scribner)
- Ansible: Up and Running: Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way (Lorin Hochstein, Rene Moser; O'Reilly Media)
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Biography
I'm Aaron Sumner, of Astoria, Oregon, USA; by way of Lawrence, Kansas, Seattle, Washington, and Jersey County, Illinois.
I've worked on the web since 1994 when I began creating some of the very first departmental and organizational websites as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas. Over the years I've worked my way through static HTML to Applescript (yes, Applescript) to Perl to PHP to Ruby. Since 2005 I've worked mostly with Ruby and Rails, with a dose of Javascript and helping of Python. I'm becoming more fluent and productive in React right now.
I'm a Senior Software Engineer at O'Reilly Media and have blogged there a few times, too.
When off the clock and away from the text editor, I like outdoor cooking, baseball (go Cards), college sports (Rock Chalk Jayhawk), woodworking, and running.
I still learn new things every day. Sometimes I share them here. Thanks for following along.