Cucumber is a great tool I usually use for BDD in my ruby projects, but yesterday I tried it with Flex, and it was very enjoyable. Here a little example on how to test Flex applications with Cucumber.
»If you run a rails application on multiple servers behind a load balancer, almost every time you make a request you have a response from a different host. If you want to know which host has sent back the response, you can use a middleware that adds the hostname in the page title of each request.
»In the last days I switched a lot of old projects to use Cucumber, then I started writing test for Web App Theme. Here I haven’t models or controllers to test, because it’s just a generator, but I found enjoyable the use of plain text features to describe the ThemeGenerator behavior:
»Many people found out a rails generator inside my web-app-theme project and asked me how to use it. Here an example, starting from scratch with a new rails app that manages music Albums.
»Today I’m working on an AIR application, and I need to create a PDF starting from a list of images. This PDF needs to have one image for each page. I used AlivePDF, a very useful ActionScript3 library for PDF generation, and I created a simple class that takes an array of image paths and creates the PDF I need.
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