Ruby on Rails Outsourcing

Thank you so much for those of you who have contacted us lately. We truly appreciate the interest. We are however, unfortunately, very short staffed. Seems like finding new clients is easier than hiring talented engineers!

For now we wouldnt want to hire many people at once, because we never want to lay off our engineers, even after our contracts with our clients are over.

Also, training and making sure all new engineers are up to the standard would be more difficult if we hire engineers too agressively.

That’s why we’re taking a more modest approach when hiring.  Currently our rate of head-count growth is an additional of one engineer per month.

But rest assured, we are doing the best we can to satisfy your development needs!

Ever that kind of error when trying to use HttpMock to test your ActiveResource client code ?

I got that error, and for hours couldnt figure out why. I have followed the tests in the library (such as test/base_test.rb):

ActiveResource::HttpMock.respond_to do |mock|
mock.get “/people/1.xml”, {}, @somexml
…

Well, it turns out that I need to set .site = “http://localhost” on the ActiveResource class I’m using!

Hope this helps anyone who experience the same problem as mine.

But if you are developing both the web service client and the provider, it’s better to just execute the XML request to the provider application instead of doing HttpMock. Because well, it’s a local connection, so it’s fast. Also it can help find bugs in the provider application.