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Back to Basics: Writing Unit Tests First

Step-by-step instructions for learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Ruby. There’s nothing to fear! It’s fun.
Britt Ballard
April 7, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
What's New in Edge Rails: Active Record enums

Try out enums, a new data structure macro in Rails.
Prem Sichanugrist
April 1, 2014
- Web
- Rails
Streaming downloads proxy service with Node.js

Use microservices to compose and analyse light-weight declarative data pipelines.
Ismael Celis
March 31, 2014
- JavaScript
- Rails
- New Bamboo
- Web
Form Filling is Formulaic

Write less form-related code in your Capybara tests with our newly open-sourced library, Formulaic.
Caleb Hearth
February 28, 2014
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
- Formulaic
Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries

Use composition to build more complex SQL queries in Ruby using ActiveRelation’s API.
Sage Griffin
February 17, 2014
- Web
- Rails
How to Evaluate Your Rails JSON API for Performance Improvements

Before adding database indexes, eager loading, and caches, spend a few minutes at the whiteboard with your team to rethink the high-level requirements for your JSON API.
Laila Winner
February 10, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- Rails
Back to Basics: HTTP Requests in Rails Apps

An in-depth look at HTTP requests and how Ajax works in Rails.
Britt Ballard
February 5, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- HTTP
- Rails
Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara

How to use Capybara’s wait_for_ajax helper.
Gabe Berke-Williams
February 4, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
ActiveRecord's where.not

Make clunky negation queries in ActiveRecord easier to read.
Gabe Berke-Williams
January 24, 2014
- Web
- Rails
How we test Rails applications

We use RSpec feature and specs heavily, controller and view specs more judiciously, FactoryBot for test data, JavaScript integration specs with Poltergeist or Capybara Webkit, like test doubles and test spies but not test mocks, and we stub external requests with Webmock.
Josh Steiner
January 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
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