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  1. New eBook: Geocoding on Rails, Your Map to Geocoding Rails Applications

    If you’ve worked on a web application in the past eight years or so, there’s...

    Josh Clayton
    October 3, 2013
    • News
    • Web
    • Books
  2. Backbone.js, JSON API, and Relational Data: A Primer

    While following patterns suggested by JSON API with Ember may be...

    Josh Clayton
    October 2, 2013
    • Web
    • Rails
    • JavaScript
  3. Fast JSON APIs in Rails with Key-Based Caches and ActiveModel::Serializers

    Want to make your Rails JSON APIs fast? Blisteringly fast? In a project I’ve...

    Josh Clayton
    May 30, 2013
    • Web
    • Performance
    • Rails
  4. Process Jobs Inline when Running Acceptance Tests

    Web apps often move long-running processes (such as delivering email) out of...

    Josh Clayton
    January 14, 2013
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  5. Better Acceptance Tests with Page Objects

    Use a Page Object to improve acceptance readability.

    Josh Clayton
    November 15, 2012
    • Web
    • RSpec
    • Testing
  6. Migrating Data from an Upgraded Postgres

    I recently upgraded Postgres on my development machine from 9.1.4 to 9.2.1. ...

    Josh Clayton
    October 16, 2012
    • Web
    • PostgreSQL
  7. Using the Draper Gem, Round One

    Draper is a handy new gem for extracting logic normally held in helpers and...

    Josh Clayton
    August 23, 2012
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  8. Ruby and KISS: Sitting in a Tree

    I learned a lot of things in the Marines, but one takeaway which applies...

    Josh Clayton
    August 16, 2012
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  9. Mind-Bending Factories

    People often forget that FactoryBot1 is just using Ruby to instantiate...

    Josh Clayton
    July 31, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Open Source
  10. Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryBot's Cucumber Steps

    For almost three years now, FactoryBot1 has provided developers using...

    Josh Clayton
    June 25, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
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    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
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