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Everyday Rails Testing
with RSpec! 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.
Low Overhead Industries
is my semi-dedicated-but-not-entirely-serious approach to woodworking
within constraints, and/or my attempt to
subsidize ongoing projects. Follow along as I build a simple, functional workshop
with limited space and budget, or just buy something to
support my woodworking habit!
Everyday Rails is a blog for
people who need to build stuff with Rails and get on to their next
project. Sometimes it's still about Ruby and Rails, though these days I
tend to think and write about broader topics there.
Sound Refound is an online gallery
of promotional flyers for concerts. I've collected these over the years,
primarily in the Lawrence, Kansas, and Seattle, Washington areas.
Everyday Rails RSpec Snippets
is a collection of snippets to speed up and simplify writing tests in Visual Studio Code,
as taught in my Rails testing book.
I use these snippets every day to speed up my test-driven development!
Recent posts
- What I'm up to (March 2025)
- Online and socials (2025)
- My take on the Sorta Sortimo small parts organizer system
Now reading
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual (Yvon Chouinard; Penguin Books; Updated 2nd edition)
- The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing (Personal Finance and Money Management Book for Childfree and Childless People) (Jay Zigmont, PhD, MBA, CFP; Sourcebooks)
- Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties (Elijah Wald; Dey Street Books; Reprint edition)
Biography
I'm Aaron Sumner: Hackity-hack woodworker, low-and-slow cooker, tiny-scale gardener, Jayhawk, run/walk/runner, and cat herder, currently residing in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Also: A former league bowler and Olympic speed walker.
Sometimes I write software in my role as an Associate Software Engineering Manager at O’Reilly Media. Some of the other times I write about writing software as an independent technical author at Everyday Rails.
Previous stops include Astoria, Oregon; Lawrence, Kansas; Seattle, Washington; and Jersey County, Illinois.
All of the above statements are true.