Fun with tools!

[Ed Howland]

Boy, I love me some 'rvm' and 'curll. I've run into some weird bugs in
XML parsing and used rvm to test out various ruby versions and patch
levels. I also used curl to test REST servers. It really is loaded for
bear when it comes to flexibility.

Anyone else have any favorite tools when it comes to testing or
whatever? RSpec/Cucumber and Test::Unit need not apply. :)

Happy Holidays,
Ed

[1] rvm 1.9.1-p376; gem install rspec # Bug seems to exist in all of
them. Email me for details.
[2] curl -X 'PUT -d 'args=[]' Send a PUT message with a string
payload. Can allso hanlde file uploads via PUT. Apache doesn't handle
PUT very well. To get around this, most REST servers recognoze a diled
named _method with value PUT. This works in Rails, fo instance.

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