In Ruby on rails, methods that generate urls from named routes are not globally accessible. For example, you can’t access them from console (script/console). If you want to use these methods from such places, then the rails documentation for ActionController::UrlWriter suggests two ways of doing it. According to this documentation, you can: Include ActionController::UrlWriter in [...]

While testing methods that return boolean values in ruby (the ones that end in ‘?’), try to avoid following matchers: method_returning_true?.should be_true or method_returning_false?should be_false This is because, ‘be_true’ and ‘be_false’ matchers considers ‘nil’ to be false and anything other than ‘nil’ to be true. When we write methods in ruby which end with question [...]