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Testing Your Factories First

Have you ever added a seemingly innocent validation to a model, like so:...
Reade Harris
September 6, 2012
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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
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- Factory Girl
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Factory Bot 2.5 Gets Custom Constructors

Today marks a big day in the life of Factory Bot; you can now override the...
Josh Clayton
January 21, 2012
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Factory Bot 2.4 Goes Meta

Factory Bot1 has been getting some hardcore internal refactorings over the...
Josh Clayton
January 13, 2012
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Factory Bot 2.2, your new best friend!

Aside from a handful of internal code clean up, Factory Bot 2.2 brings a...
Josh Clayton
October 14, 2011
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