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User Testing Gone Wild: A Guide to Course Correction

- Jaclyn Perrone
- December 24, 2015
- Uncategorized

After some unexpected twists, here’s how to get your user test back on track.

The Split is Not Enough: Unicode Whitespace Shenigans for Rubyists

November 26, 2012

That code is legal Ruby! If you ran it, you'd see 8. How? There's a tale to tell..

The String with the Golden Space

I was on IRC in #nwrug enjoying festive cheer with fellow Northern Rubyists when ysr23 presented a curious problem.

He was using a Twitter library that returned a tweet, "@twellyme film", in a string called reply. The problem was that despite calling reply.split, the string refused to split on whitespace. Yet if he did "@twellyme film".split in IRB, that was fine.

International man of mystery Will Jessop suggested checking $; (it's a special global variable that defines the default separator for String#split). Read More

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#160 Authlogic

May 4, 2009

Authentication can get very complex. In this episode I show how Authlogic can handle this complexity while you stay in control of how it is presented to the user. […]