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Tag: ruby

  • XML Handler Bypassing ParseError Handling Rack Middleware on Rails 6

    In a project using actionpack-xml_parser, and implementing a modified version of Catching Invalid JSON Parse Errors with Rack Middleware to also handle XML errors, an upgrade to Rails 6 broke the handling of the ParseError. Interestingly enough, JSON was being handled as expected. TL;DR: The short answer to this is that config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb only had json…

  • Whitespace is Significant

    While I was in my first couple years of college, Python was gaining traction as a hot new programming language. I had been programming in C since high school, but was curious about new languages. I took an interest in learning more about Python. A classmate told me that whitespace (at least indentation) was significant…

  • Hooking in an LDAP Test Server to Cucumber Tests

    I managed to get a custom Devise strategy with LDAP working, but had no clear way of automating tests. I wanted to validate if I still had to keep the password fresh in the database, and needed to be able to write scenarios around that in case someone attempted to refactor out the code. After…