August 05, 2013 - Team Dysania

Captain's Log: 2013.08.05

• Continued editing Preview, Example, and Amazon specs on preview-refactor branch
  • edited Preview spec to use Example fixture and fakeweb
    • we want the spec to not request a website, and to use our fixture
    • we need to ask why is this important? Don't we want tests to fail once an actual website changes?
  • created response() function in html spec helper for less repetitive code in specs
  • used let() to do lazy assignments
    • ex: let(:link) { "http://example.com" }
  • finished creating and passing all tests for Amazon
    • First spec finished with least amount of input from Captain Kurt yet!
    • JZ: write tests
    • Vyki: make tests pass
    • learned more about Nokogiri, used .first["src"] to get src attribute for product image

• First pull request from Robin
  • tiny change to keep us up-to-date with discourse/discourse
• oneboxer changes to discourse/discourse being redirected our way
• New recommended resources
  • Bitcast.io - Captain Kurt suggested we use it for learning by creating our own screencasts on top of watching existing screencasts
  • Rails 4 In Action - Book, check out the early access edition
• HOMEWORK: Listen to more RubyRogues, checkout Ruby Tapas

Meet @jzeta & @toastergrrl from Team Dysania! They are developers by night AND can make balloon arches:http://t.co/6cdokfAiN7 #teamoftheweek

— Rails Girls SoC (@RailsGirlsSoC) August 5, 2013

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August 01, 2013 - Team Dysania

Captain's Log: 2013.08.01

• Skipped Ruby study group for this week, but will attend next week's LA Ruby/Rails August meetup
• Created fixtures for all the rest of the oneboxes
  • Took up most of our session since oneboxer currently supports 30+ sites
  • Certain sites (i.e. Hulu, Google Play) kept making curl hang for some reason
  • Now we'll focus on creating specs specific to each onebox
  • Started to clean up fixtures but still need to finish
  • According to whitelist.rb if a site supports OpenGraph then it is already supported by oneboxer -- will have to keep that in mind when making tests
• Captain Kurt's challenge: if we make the 1st failing test from yesterday (out of 2) pass, he'll get us pizza during the next session
  • Used Nokogiri's inner_text() method to get just text of extracted data, without HTML tags --> CHALLENGE COMPLETED
  • Also made 2nd test pass technically...by commenting it out for now (bad test that we'll need to rewrite)
  • Monday will be Pizza Day! Or hopefully perhaps something healthier
• First tiny code review from mentor Robin
  • Mostly positive, asked for reasoning behind using require_relative and add_onebox manually for each onebox instead of just including the whole onebox directory
  • We replied that we figured it would be easier to understand and would reduce security risk
• Planning on registering discourse-oneboxer gem to RubyGems.org on Monday
  • Captain Kurt joked that he would register it himself tomorrow without us (we don't meet on Fridays)
  • We were not amused
• Worked on RGSoC introduction blog post
  • Forked summer-of-code repo, created new branch
  • Converted approved rough draft to Markdown
  • Will submit pull request by Monday
• Captain Kurt suggested creating Ruby wrapper in future for Apsis game engine by @wilkieii

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July 31, 2013 - Team Dysania

Captain's Log: 2013.07.31

• Still working on preview-refactor branch
• TDD:
  • JZ: making tests pass
  • Vyki: created tests that failed
• Added amazon spec
• Created fixtures for amazon and example
• Made preview and amazon specs pass
• Learned how to get contents of url in bash using curl
  • curl --output spec/fixtures/amazon.response -L -X GET http://amzn.com/193609620X
  • how we will create fixtures for all oneboxes
• Vyki bought The Well-Grounded Rubyist from Lili's recommendation
• JZ didn't die from Day 2 of bike commuting and was reunited with her lost keys
• Gave status update to our RGSoC supervisor Benedikt
• Sent in our introduction blog post to RGSoC organizers for review -- to be published Monday!
• HOMEWORK (Vyki): Clean up Amazon response (remove CSS and whitespace)
• HOMEWORK (JZ): Create fixture for example, pick another onebox to refactor and capture response for it

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