The success of our Scout monitoring tool’s Beta has been amazing. We appreciate all the feedback we’ve received so far.
We’ve decided to spin-off a separate product based on Scout. It’s called Skraut. Just as Scout can monitor a server to know when it’s in trouble, Skraut can monitor your significant other, to know when you’re in trouble.
We hope you like it. Remember to signup for the Beta program, launching soon!
Posted in Keeping it Simple, Ruby on Rails | 1 comment 
If you’re just getting started with testing (and general test-first or test-driven development) in your Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications, you have a couple of choices.
You can go with Ruby’s Unit::Test, built right in to Ruby, and built-in to Rails with unit, functional, and integration test suites setup for you.
Or, you could setup Rspec with Mocha, and implement a form of testing called Behavior Driven Development or BDD.
Both approaches serve the same goal: better, tested code, easier code to maintain, and in general, just better practices.
My advice is to start with unit tests, and then move to Rspec later.
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