First-annual Amgen Tour of California Women's CRITERIUM

First-annual Amgen Tour of California Women's CRITERIUM

Rails like migrations in the .NET world

I have done a few very small projects with rails; one of the really nice features with rails is database migrations

There are a few ports of rails migrations to the .NET world (that's where I spend alot of my time). I have not used any of these for 'real' but I have 'sampled' them. They all look promising but it seems like there is not very much activity on these projects.

Migratordotnet
http://code.google.com/p/migratordotnet/

RikMigrations
http://www.rikware.com/RikMigrations.html

SubSonic Migrations
I don't know if they ever did incorporate this into the official release of sub sonic? maybe it will come in a future release
http://blog.wekeroad.com/2007/10/03/subsonic-migrate-me/

I recently stumbled across vincent-vega and have begun using it on a small project and am planning to incorporate it into some of our larger applications. It is an Nant task that handles database versioning. It is not a migration in the same way as the other solutions as it uses actual sql scripts for all schema changes instead of c# code, which makes sense to me!

Vincent-Vega
[update 2008/10/14]
vincent-vega is now part of the tarantino project.
http://code.google.com/p/tarantino/
Thanks for the heads up Dan!
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Rhino.Mocks basics

Rhino.Mocks basics - I just threw this together real quick; personal reference material
http://house9-code-samples.blogspot.com/2008/02/rhinomocks-basics.html

The official Rhino Mocks Documentation is very good and available here
http://www.ayende.com/Wiki/(S(33lpuuuz4itdtnjwlncidy55))/Default.aspx?Page=Rhino+Mocks+Documentation

Rhino.Mocks - the basics

Started using Rhino.Mocks recently (Awesome!!!) - just wanted to list a few of the basics; the official Rhino Mocks Documentation is very good and available here. These examples are a bit rough, they have not been compiled; there may be typos.

using

using Rhino.Mocks;

The mock repository

// use the mock repository to create the mocked objects
MockRepository mocks = new Rhino.Mocks.MockRepository();
// example
System.Object someObject = mocks.CreateMock();
// set up the behaviour you want from calls to your mocked object 
Rhino.Mocks.Expect.Call(someObject.Equals(someParameter)).Return(false);
// then don't forget
mocks.ReplayAll();
// now do stuff that calls your mocked object Equals method
...

Mock a call to the db

// create our mocked repository object - IProductRepository, the real one calls the db
IProductRepository repository = mocks.CreateMock();
// tell rhino.mocks when we call the method GetProduct with the argument 33 to return null
Rhino.Mocks.Expect.Call(repository.GetProduct(33)).Return(null);
// get the mocking ready
mocks.ReplayAll();
// pass our mock to our product service layer
ProductService service = new ProductService(repository);
// service.GetProduct makes a call to the mocked repository.GetProduct which will return null
IProduct product = service.GetProduct(33);
// should be null
Assert.IsNull(product);

Ignore any arguments

// any call to GetProduct will return null no matter the value of the arg
Rhino.Mocks.Expect.Call(repository.GetProduct(null)).Return(null).IgnoreArguments();

mock a method that returns void

IProduct product = new Product("003092", "Sierra Nevada", 6.49);
// this void call will handle our product 003092
Rhino.Mocks.Expect.Call(delegate { repository.Save(product); });
// this void call will handle any argument
Rhino.Mocks.Expect.Call(delegate { repository.Save(null); }).IgnoreArguments();

Handle multiple calls to the same method

IProduct product = new Product("003092", "Sierra Nevada", 6.49);
// note the .Repeat.Any()
Rhino.Mocks.Expect.Call(repository.GetProduct("003092")).Return(product).Repeat.Any();
// send the mock to our product service object
ProductService service = new ProductService(repository);
// find by sku calls GetProduct on the mocked Product repository
IProduct beer = service.FindBySku("003092");
// find decent beer calls GetProduct on the mocked Product repository also
IProduct decentBeer = service.FindDecentBeer();

Partial Mock

// create a partial mock with constructor args (our product repository again)
IProductService service = mocks.PartialMock(repository);
// our test case data
IUser loggedOnUser = new User("John", "Doe", CustomerType.Gold);
// mock product service calls to GetLoggedOnUser
Rhino.Mocks.Expect.Call(service.GetLoggedOnUser()).Return(loggedOnUser);
// get the mocking ready
mocks.ReplayAll();
// now GetDiscount is not a mocked method but it does call the mocked GetLoggedOnUser method
decimal discount = service.GetDiscount();
// assert the result
Assert.AreSame(44.4M, discount, "Gold customer discount not correct?");
// NOTE: this will not work (compile) unless the mocked method GetLoggedOnUser is public

SyntaxHighlighter and Google Blogger

Just started using the SyntaxHighlighter on my code samples blog - here is some quick notes on what I had to do

• Download the SyntaxHighlighter javascript and css files from http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
  
• Upload those to my googlepage website, if you don't have one go to https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount and click on the 'Page Creator' link
  
• Edit the blog template -> Layout -> Edit Html
• Add the references to the css and javascript files in the head section
• Add the initialization javascript calls right before the /body tag at the end of the html template
• see http://morten.lyhr.dk/2007/12/how-to-get-syntax-highlighting-in.html
• then use pre tags like this around your code pre class="c-sharp" name="code"
• see http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/wiki/Usage

One issue I ran into was that the google blogger automatically adds br tags where newlines appear in any content - makes the code pretty much unreadable, but the fix is well documented and easy to implement - http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/wiki/BloggerMode