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How-To: Quick Rails Benchmarking

This February 6th we are launching a new workshop: Advanced Rails. The...
Harold Giménez
November 2, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Performance
Test Rake Tasks Like a BOSS

Testing Rake tasks is one of the most painful things I do as a Ruby...
Josh Clayton
October 26, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
- Testing
Danger, Danger: High Voltage! Use Rails 3.1 for Static Sites

Building a quick static site on Rails with High Voltage.
Nick Quaranto
October 21, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- High Voltage
Factory Bot 2.2, your new best friend!

Aside from a handful of internal code clean up, Factory Bot 2.2 brings a...
Josh Clayton
October 14, 2011
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- Factory Bot
capybara-webkit doesn't like #fork

Tips for using capybara-webkit with cucumber suites and forking.
Jon Yurek
October 13, 2011
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- Capybara Webkit
Separate your filters

Separate the things which are not searching from the things which are indeed actually searching.
Mike Burns
October 6, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
Getting Sequential: A look into a Factory Bot Anti-pattern

I’ve noticed a handful of what I’d consider Factory Bot anti-patterns, either...
Josh Clayton
October 3, 2011
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- Good Code
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
How To Masquerade As Another User To See How They Use Your App

Recently, I created thoughtbot Foursquare lists to help out-of-town workshops...
Dan Croak
September 22, 2011
- Web
- Rails
Testing Rails Applications with Capybara Webkit

Modern applications use Javascript. You can make rich user interfaces that...
September 17, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Testing
- Capybara Webkit
Backbone.js on Rails eBook: updates and a sample

Since we announced the Backbone.js on Rails eBook project a little over a...
Jason Morrison
August 26, 2011
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