Archive for February, 2009

Creating a secure User model in Rails (Part 1)

While doing my third year project, one of the issues that has been perplexing me for about the last week is how to create a secure User model in Rails nowadays (version 2.2.2). In the good old days I used to do some magic and it worked, but then restful_authentication came along and everyone seemed [...]

Musing about test driven development

Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing the second report about my final year project. This is supposed to be about the design and spec of the system, however I have decided to do things differently.
Test driven development is one those topics I have thought ‘ooh that sounds good’, but have yet [...]