ALTERthought Blogs Archives: August 2008
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26 August 2008
Grails Testing Tip (DO’s, DONT’s and DOH’s): The Clean Slate Principle
DO: Follow the Clean Slate Principle
Its happened to all of us, a test that was working just fine, suddenly starts failing because the test database was left in an unstable state. Enter the Clean Slate Principle.
Grails integration tests should endeavor to follow a simple rule:
Leave the database in the state in which you found it.
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15 August 2008
Grails Tests: Cannot send redirect – response is already committed
When testing controllers, if you make more than one call to a action/closure you may get the error: “Cannot send redirect – response is already committed” But if you want to call one action to modify the database and then test the results in a subsequent call, if you put that call in a [...]
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12 August 2008
ALTERthought is hiring: Ruby/Rails Developers
Job Description
ALTERthought is seeking energetic and talented associates driven to deliver solutions for a variety of client distributed systems and web applications, including Web 2.0 initiatives. This position requires someone to bring resourcefulness, experience and a passion for online technology solutions for start-up, emerging mid-market, and established Fortune 500 clientele. As a member of the [...]
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11 August 2008
ALTERthought is hiring: Experienced Recruiter
About Us
ALTERthought is a strategic management and technology consulting firm and concept development lab. We specialize in business process re/engineering, technology strategy, and solving the complex design, development, and project management challenges of innovative web-based systems.
Job Description
ALTERthought has a ground-floor opportunity for experienced recruiting professionals to join the firm as it expands its innovative [...]
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4 August 2008
Terracotta
I looked at Terracotta over the last few weeks. My goals were to understand what it does and how it could be helpful to us in the future. To achieve these goals, while evaluating it I always related it back to past projects to look at how terracotta could have been helpful those.
What I found [...]
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3 August 2008
Drools Plugin for Grails Application
I have just released a Grails Plugin for Drools. The plugin details can also be found at http://www.grails.org/Drools+Plugin.
Drools is a business rule management system (BRMS) and an enhanced Rules Engine implementation, ReteOO, based on Charles Forgy’s Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language.
Features
Easy implementation of Drools
Rules can be stored in file or in database
Rules [...]
