Testing Anti-Pattern: Distracting Setup Data - SaturnCI - Continuous Integration for Ruby on Rails
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Every month I walk to the end of my driveway and stuff my mailbox with a tall stack of letters. Actually, I have to repeat this process a few times, because stack is too tall to fit in my mailbox all at once, and each month it gets a little taller. But I don't mind.
These letters are destined for Alaska, Australia, Belfast, Bucarest, Boston, Portland, Paris, Peru, Kansas and Kuala Lumpur. They also go to Denver and Dallas, Spain and Seattle, Memphis, Malaysia and Minneapolis. Others just make a short trip across town. The readers of my letters are scattered across every inhabitable continent, and sometimes I even cross the ocean to visit them. I've been doing this for years.
I'm the author of what I assume is one of the world's very few snail mail programming newsletters, Nonsense Monthly. I started it on a whim to promote my consulting services. Now it's become a whole business on its own. I print it myself, and I use Ruby to help.
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