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May 12, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Fake a SMTP Server with Python for Rails Testing

So I’ve been in the process of writing an integration test to verify the flow of registration through some unique conditions. One thing I ran into while writing my Rails test was this error. Connection refused – connect(2) for nil port 25 After looking around at documentation on what to do for testing it seemed…

February 7, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Do It All With Ruby

There is a recent post on thewildblogger.com titled “Top 12 Programming Languages for Beginners in 2015” which uses diagrams from IEEE Spectrum based on popularity of languages on the internet based on quantity. The article itself does a decent job on touching on many good languages. But I find the image graphic misleading. Image: IEEE…