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API Taster: Visually Test Rails Application API

ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:59:00 +0000

Like a lot of places, at Locomote we are building a platform that is API-based. As much as I like having comprehensive test suites, I often feel the need to manually test API endpoints to see exactly what the responses are.

Tools such as Postman solves part of the issue: they allow us to quickly test API endpoints without messing with cURL.

But as a lazy developer, I want more. ;)

I want something that:

automatically generates API endpoints from Rails routes definition
defines input params as easy as defining routes
has input params that can be shared with test factories

And so API Taster was born. Please check it out to see how you can use it.

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released my first ruby gem

ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:32:34 +0000

Released my first ruby gem. :-)

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Use the 'textmate' Command to Quickly Install Bundle Files

ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:46:00 +0000

Initially developed by Yehuda Katz, the Textmate gem is an extremely handy tool for installing and managing your Textmate bundle files.

The tool works very well, for the most part. But due to the way the GitHub search query was built, the tool failed at finding Textmate bundles that do not honour the ’-tmbundle’ suffix in the name of their repositories.

I was waiting for GitHub to fix their API bug which I reported here, but today I discovered a workaround that solves this issue.

So, here, I present you with the improved code on my fork.

Update: The changes are now merged back to Ddollar’s repo, so you may install the Textmate gem by:

gem install textmate --source git://github.com/ddollar/textmate.git

Enjoy! :)

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