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  1. Hidden gems: fake_braintree

    The fake_braintree gem makes your life easier when testing code that charges...

    Mike Burns
    September 13, 2012
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Fake Braintree
  2. Danger, danger: High Voltage vulnerability

    Version 1.2.0 of high_voltage is a security fix.

    Mike Burns
    September 10, 2012
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    • High Voltage
  3. 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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    • Factory Girl
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  4. Introducing Bourbon Neat, a Sass-based responsive grid framework

    Bourbon Neat—or Neat for short—is a lightweight, open source fluid grid...

    Reda Lemeden
    September 5, 2012
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    • Bourbon
    • Sass
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  5. Mind-Bending Factories

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

    Josh Clayton
    July 31, 2012
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  6. This Week in Open Source

    Factory Bot1 Version 3.6.0. of factory_botis hot and ready...

    Jason Draper
    July 27, 2012
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  7. Clearance 0.16.3 fixes a password reset vulnerability

    A new clearance version works around a Rails security bug.

    Mike Burns
    June 1, 2012
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. SHOULDA BEEN GONE

    We haven’t been taking pull requests on shoulda-matchers as much as we...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    May 12, 2012
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