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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
- Web
- Open Source
- Rails
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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
- Web
- Open Source
- Rails
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Constrain Yourself

Most Rails developers have written apps where you have a marketing homepage...
Josh Clayton
May 8, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
Date and Time Formats for Pirates

Need to display a date in your Rails app? First try: Time.now.strftime...
Alex Berry
April 27, 2012
- Web
- Rails
Rails Refactoring Example: Introduce Null Object

You probably don’t write code like this: if object.kind_of?(User) do_this...
Dan Croak
April 11, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
Testing a before_filter

How to set up test suite for verifying a before_filter in Rails.
Adarsh Pandit
April 6, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Multiple Environments on Heroku

Agile development methodologies promote quick and iterative product releases....
Harlow Ward
April 3, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Heroku
Global min_messages

How to reduce postgres output noise.
Dan Croak
April 2, 2012
- Web
- PostgreSQL
- Rails
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
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Open Source
Anonymizing User, Company, and Location Data Using Faker

Often during development it’s useful to have realistic data to get a sense of...
Adarsh Pandit
February 22, 2012
- Web
- Rails
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