> Hi,

>  Could I get some advice on two separate things:

>  1) unit testing in rails... specifically, I'm playing around in
> rails w/o a db. I get an error when i run a unit test, as in the ones
> rails creates for you when you use script/generate blah blah. It
> appears to be trying to connect to a db. database.yml still has
> defaults because I'm not using one just yet. advice on tdd with rails
> in general would be great.

>  2) I've got a working contact form on my self-tutorial rails app...
> but I'd like to do it with a model but not have it tied to a table.
> And use validation. Any advice? simpler cases work too.

> Thanks!

> /teaching self rails & ruby blah blah blah...