Tag Archives: Ruby

Hunting a Random Bug – A True Story

Posted on 2012/10/02 by Johannes Thönes

A few weeks ago, I finished a bug hunt for the RapidFTR open source project, which took me three evenings. I thought it might be worth sharing the story of the hunt. This article will describe what I did. I will … Continue reading →

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Testing Google Analytics Custom Events with Capybara and Poltergeist

Posted on 2012/09/02 by Johannes Thönes

In our current client project, we are using Google Analytics to track custom events of what users are doing on our website. To make sure, this is working in the way we expect, we want to write functional tests to … Continue reading →

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A Ruby Script for Upgrading Multiple DokuWiki Installations

Posted on 2010/01/24 by Johannes Thönes

After DokuWiki has been released multiple times in the last few days because of security problems, I though it was a good time, to write a little script for automatically updating multiple instances. You can find the ruby script at … Continue reading →

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Speeding up iterative calculation in Ruby

Posted on 2009/02/27 by Johannes Thönes

The domain background of my diploma thesis is sample size calculation for clinical trials – in fact simulation of those. This means I need to calculate how many probands or trial subjects are needed, to get the result with a … Continue reading →

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Argument Fun with Ruby

Posted on 2009/02/03 by Johannes Thönes

As some of you might know, my diploma thesis is on simulation with the help of an internal ruby DSL. This DSL will be – at least I hope so – full of small little interesting things, making the life … Continue reading →

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