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  1. 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
    • Neat
    • Bourbon
    • Sass
    • Open Source
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  2. Mind-Bending Factories

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

    Josh Clayton
    July 31, 2012
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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    • Ruby
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  6. 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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  7. 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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    • Shoulda
  8. 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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  9. Constrain Yourself

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

    Josh Clayton
    May 8, 2012
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  10. Inbox Zero: GitHub Issues Edition

    We’ve noticed unpleasant trends in our most popular open source projects: ...

    Joe Ferris
    April 27, 2012
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