Captain's Log: 2013.09.05

• Short day today since we're tizzered :/
• Fixed small errors in caching-support-for-preview branch based on Captain Kurt's comments
• Worked on logs
• HOMEWORK
  • Work on remaining comments on caching-support-for-preview branch
  • Read @avdi's article on The Law of Demeter

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Captain's Log: 2013.09.04

• Continued working on caching support
  • Continued refactoring Preview class
    • Refactored A LOT
    • Renamed #record to #data in Engine module
  • Added new specs in spec_helper.rb
    • Make sure oneboxes behave like engines

shared_examples_for "engines" do
  it "should behave like an engine" do
    expect(described_class.private_instance_methods).to include(:data, :record, :raw)
  end

  it "should have implemented a data method" do
    expect { described_class.new(link).send(:data) }.not_to raise_error
  end
end

• In onebox specs, move fake web to global scope since our tests were using actual web pages instead of fixtures
• Captain Kurt released v1.2.0 of his Hexpress gem!
  • We made a new branch that requires it in onebox since we will be using that instead of Verbal Expressions to match urls
• We realized we need to rename our onebox specs to end in onebox_spec.rb (instead of just spec.rb) to reflect the files they are testing
• Vyki made her first Tumblr today! #opengov

• HOMEWORK
  • Catch up on logs!
  • Read more about accessors

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Captain's Log: 2013.08.28

• Continued working on caching support
  • Decided to use moneta after all
    • Set expire = true in options
    • Created singleton .defaults to DRY code for initializing Moneta caches
  • Made edits based on Captain Kurt's comments
  • We're gonna need to fix Preview specs to check that cache behaves like a cache
    • Bad test right now - only checks that it's a kind of Hash
    • Need to test that it behaves like a cache system, with abilities to #store, #fetch, and #key
• Discussed using default images for oneboxes missing usable images
  • Considering using this process to help integrate with Rails
• Vyki created Clikthrough onebox
  • NOT "CLICKTHROUGH"!
• JZ made edits to oneboxes from last night based on Captain Kurt's comments on open pull requests
  • Use Array#first instead of Array[0] because more idiomatic
  • Make sure to indicate on pull requests if it depends on another one
• Discussed more on regex, Verbal Expressions, and played with Rubular
  • We'll be using the regex matchers from Discourse to help guide us with our Verbal Expressions in our matches blocks
  • This will be important for security
• Learned more on constants and how classes/modules are basically constants
  • You can actually do something like Onebox = Module.new do ... end
• Captain Kurt recommended we look at Hamster

• HOMEWORK
  • Work on oneboxes
  • At some point, make edits to README branch - some instructions are already outdated

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Vyki Englert

@toastergrrl

Joanna Zeta (aka JZ)

@jzeta