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factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
New Upcase Trail: Intermediate Rails 5

In this course we’ll take a dive deep into Ruby on Rails 5 with a series of tutorials to help you move beyond the basics and start understanding and using more advanced Ruby. Together, we will build a Twitter-like application from start to finish.
Jason Ramirez
October 12, 2017
Elm and Rails Sitting in a Tree

I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-N-G: Webpacker makes using Elm in your Rails app pain-free.
Tom Wey and Josh Clayton
October 9, 2017
- Rails
- Elm
Access Ruby Hash Values with Fallbacks for Missing Data

Find out different ways to access hash values in Ruby and save the dinosaurs at the same time.
Rob Whittaker
September 25, 2017
- Code
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Debugging Why Your Specs Have Slowed Down

Your test suite used to be lightning fast but now it’s starting to feel a bit sluggish. Before adding CI parallelization, let’s see if there’s any clutter to remove.
Mike Wenger
September 22, 2017
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
Querying the oldest and newest records within an SQL group

How to find the oldest or most recent record associated with a particular foreign key.
Jack Wilson
September 18, 2017
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- Databases
- Rails
Lean & Maintainable Reports with Heroku Dataclips

Write testable reports in SQL that don’t erode over time.
Oli Peate
August 21, 2017
- Data
- Heroku
- Rails
- Web
Headless Capybara Feature Specs with Chrome

We’re experimenting with running feature specs using Chrome’s new headless mode. How do we set it up, and how does it compare to Capybara-WebKit?
Derek Prior
June 16, 2017
- Rails
- Testing
- Web
Decorating ActiveRecord

Avoid some tricky edge cases when decorating ActiveRecord models.
Joël Quenneville
March 31, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability

Improve test readability by leveraging RSpec’s matcher composition to make multiple assertions with a single matcher.
Josh Clayton
March 9, 2017
- Web
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
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