Caching user records when using Authlogic

Today, I ran across another form of this issue with Authlogic. In short, every request in a Rails application using Authlogic with a User model that includes a last_request_at column will cause the updated_at column to change. This can break caching that is based on the last time a user was updated.

Testing ASP.NET MVC Filters

Testing controllers in ASP.NET MVC is straight forward.  However, testing action filters applied to controllers or actions requires jumping through a few hoops.  Since filters are applied by the framework, calling the action directly means no filters are executed.  Thus, you write two tests: one for the filter and one that the controller is decorated with the filter.