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title: Creating a URL String in Ruby
teaser:
tags: web,ruby,testing
author: Matt Jankowski
published_on: 2012-08-03
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Josh Clayton recently posted about [Mind Bending
Factories](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/post/28146418628/mind-bending-factories)
-- demonstrating how a 20+ line factory definition lets you use
Factory Bot to create URL strings from factories, in Ruby.  I came up
with an alternate approach, which I reveal here in this free &
exclusive webinar.