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  1. factory_bot 1.3: integrating effectively with Rails 3

    factory_bot has always had little Rails-specific code. It only depends on...

    Joe Ferris
    June 21, 2010
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  2. Factory Bot step definitions for Cucumber

    Did you know… Factory Bot includes some steps for your integration testing...

    Dan Croak
    December 15, 2009
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  3. Factory Bot Callbacks

    Factory Bot now has callbacks thanks to Nate Sutton. There are three...

    Dan Croak
    November 23, 2009
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  4. Testing Paperclip on S3 with Cucumber & Factory Bot

    We’ve been using Heroku as a staging environment for our latest project. One...

    Dan Croak
    August 25, 2009
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  5. FactoryBot 1.2: Adding Excitement to Stale Factories

    Some like it hot The FactoryBot syntax was designed to balance...

    Joe Ferris
    February 17, 2009
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  6. Waiting For a Factory~~Girl~~Bot

    Introducing a gem to create test data via factories.

    Joe Ferris
    June 6, 2008
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