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Testing and Environment Variables in Ruby

Learn how to test code using data in environment variables with Climate Control.
Josh Clayton
December 3, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- CI
Have Some (Referential) Integrity with Foreign Keys

What is referential integrity and why is it important to your Rails apps?
Derek Prior
December 2, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
How to Fix Circular Dependency Errors in Rails Integration Tests

Turn off concurrency in tests to avoid race conditions in Capybara.
Cameron Cundiff
November 28, 2014
- Web
- RSpec
- Rails
- Testing
- Capybara
- AngularJS
Introduction to Conditional HTTP Caching with Rails

Learn how to implement HTTP conditional caching in Rails using fresh_when.
Damian Galarza
November 25, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- HTTP
- Performance
Updated Test-Driven Rails Videos

I’m happy to announce that we’ve updated the content for our popular...
Josh Clayton
November 18, 2014
- News
- Web
- Upcase
- Testing
- Rails
A more efficient and organized workflow for SVGs

SVGs can be messy to develop with, often times being exported from a graphics...
Steven Harley
October 22, 2014
- Web
- SVG
- Design
- Rails
Refactoring From Model to View Helper to Null Object

We are working to add more thorough progress tracking to upcase.com. Chad...
Tute Costa
October 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
- Upcase
ActiveRecord Eager Loading with Query Objects and Decorators

How can you plug complex, multi-model SQL queries into ActiveRecord models so that you can use them in your views?
Joe Ferris
September 19, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- SQL
- Performance
How to Find Missing or Unused I18n Translations

While I18n is a great tool for quick copy changes, translation files can...
Jessie Young
September 12, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- I18n
Write Reliable, Asynchronous Integration Tests With Capybara

We’ve come to rely on integration tests as part of a balanced testing...
Joe Ferris
September 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Testing
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