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  1. 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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  2. Constrain Yourself

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

    Josh Clayton
    May 8, 2012
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. This week in open source

    factory_bot1 There’s a new version of factory_bot this week, as...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    April 20, 2012
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  6. This Week in Open Source

    clearance Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw - that’s me!) cleaned up...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    April 13, 2012
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  7. What would happen if you ran bundle update right now?

    Is there a bundle command to tell me what would be updated with bundle...

    Alex Berry
    March 31, 2012
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    Mike Burns
    March 30, 2012
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  9. Paperclip is Going Three-Point-Oh Nelly

    The new version of your favorite file upload library, Paperclip 3.0.0, has...

    Prem Sichanugrist
    March 26, 2012
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  10. This week in open source

    bourne Version 1.1.2 of bourne is out (fba748b), without a NEWS...

    Mike Burns
    March 23, 2012
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