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In relentless pursuit of some parts of REST

If we want clients to create small controllers and use resources in their routes, it’s a good idea to know why. This is a refresher of Derek Prior’s advice from Railsconf 2017.
Fritz Meissner
March 20, 2023
- REST
- Routes
- Controllers
- Rails
- Web
How to stub Feature Flags with RSpec

Are your feature flags states leaking between your test cases? Stub them all to make your test suite more reliable. Here’s how.
Stefanni Brasil and Elias Rodrigues
February 3, 2023
- Testing
- RSpec
- Rails
- Web
Building Custom RSpec Matchers with Regular Objects

RSpec custom matchers can be written using plain old objects.
Joël Quenneville
February 1, 2023
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
This week in #dev (Dec 30, 2022)

Highlights of what happened in our #dev channel on Slack this week.
thoughtbot
January 10, 2023
- This Week In Dev
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- Debugging
This week in #dev (Dec 16, 2022)

Highlights of what happened in our #dev channel on Slack this week.
thoughtbot
December 27, 2022
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How to validate the presence of a boolean field in a Rails model

A subtle bug happens when validating the presence of boolean fields in Rails. Here’s how to find it before it hits production.
Stefanni Brasil
December 21, 2022
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
How to Fix Rails 6.1 'Initialization autoloaded the constants' Warning Messages

Got autoloading during initialization warning messages in your Rails 6.1 app? It’s time to_prepare for the next version.
Stefanni Brasil
December 15, 2022
- Rails Upgrade
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
This week in #dev (Pilot)

Highlights of what happened in our #dev channel on Slack this week.
thoughtbot
December 13, 2022
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Time Zones and Rocket Ships

Rocket launches show us that we can know that two future events will be simultaneous, or what the local time will be, but not both.
Joël Quenneville
December 6, 2022
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
Your flaky tests might be time dependent

Time dependent tests are difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms don’t present themselves until it’s too late. This article will help you determine if your test suite is time dependent.
Steve Polito
December 5, 2022
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
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