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  1. Remove Duplication with FactoryBot's Traits

    FactoryBot’s traits are an outstanding way to DRY up your tests and factories...

    Josh Clayton
    May 24, 2012
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
  2. Get Your Callbacks On with Factory Bot 3.3

    FactoryBot 3.3.0 was released this weekend with a slew of improvements. To...

    Josh Clayton
    May 15, 2012
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Rails
    • Testing
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
  3. Use Factory Bot's build_stubbed for a Faster Test Suite

    Want to speed up your test suite? Reduce the number of objects persisted to...

    Josh Clayton
    May 9, 2012
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Rails
    • Testing
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
  4. Constrain Yourself

    Most Rails developers have written apps where you have a marketing homepage...

    Josh Clayton
    May 8, 2012
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Open Source
  5. FactoryBot 3.2: so awesome it needs to be released during RailsConf

    FactoryBot 3.2 brings a slew of new features; while I’d considered breaking...

    Josh Clayton
    April 24, 2012
    • News
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Testing
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
  6. Factory Bot Hits 3.0!

    Factory Bot is now 3.0! It’s been a wonderful eight months and I’m really...

    Josh Clayton
    March 23, 2012
    • News
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
  7. How to Copy and Paste with tmux on Mac OS X

    Update (Jul1 19, 2013) - tmux 1.8 is out, and with it comes a simplified...

    Josh Clayton
    March 20, 2012
    • tmux
    • OS X
  8. Don't Just Start Something; Finish It!

    Finish Weekend is all about getting stuff done. Not “mostly working” or 90%;...

    Josh Clayton
    March 1, 2012
    • News
    • Boston
  9. Run a Command Every Time You Change Directories in zsh

    You can run a command every time you change directories in zsh with the chpwd...

    Josh Clayton
    February 16, 2012
    • Unix
  10. Decoupling Data from Presentation

    I’m really happy to see a resurgence in an understanding that writing...

    Josh Clayton
    February 2, 2012
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
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