I have not been posting lately, mostly because a lot has been happening. I have started to work for Unboxed Consulting. We are a relatively small Rails development and agile consultancy company who (try to) do agile the right way. It has been great to work with smart people who know their stuff and together with clients who are willing to try out proper agile. Fortunately it has worked out really well for us and we have been able to deliver consistently. Since February I have been involved in several projects including Channel Five's Holy Soap and the Fifth Gear / Gadget show website.
The nice thing about working on Holy Soap has been that we have built it from the ground up using BDD all the way. This has resulted in a comprehensive test suite using both RSpec and Cucumber. It feels good to be able to be confident about our code and trust that our tests will break if the site will break. There are 1236 cucumber scenarios amounting to a total of 11658 steps. This has inspired me to write some tools to manage large cucumber projects, but there is nothing far enough yet to report on. This weekend I will be attending the UK Rails Camp and hopefully I will find time to work on something like that.
