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Why Factories?

Understanding why we use factories helps us write faster, more readable tests.
Joël Quenneville
January 12, 2018
- Ruby
- Web
- Testing
Graceful Switching of Worker Processes

How to avoid lost work from your job queues and worker processes.
Oli Peate
November 28, 2017
- Web
- Heroku
- Ruby
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Access Ruby Hash Values with Fallbacks for Missing Data

Find out different ways to access hash values in Ruby and save the dinosaurs at the same time.
Rob Whittaker
September 25, 2017
- Code
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Debugging Why Your Specs Have Slowed Down

Your test suite used to be lightning fast but now it’s starting to feel a bit sluggish. Before adding CI parallelization, let’s see if there’s any clutter to remove.
Mike Wenger
September 22, 2017
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
A Crash Course in Analyzing Memory Usage in Ruby

A walk through some options available to us for analyzing memory usage in MRI.
Tom Wey
August 7, 2017
- Ruby
Writing a Hypermedia API client in Ruby

How Ruby and Hypermedia can simplify the way we write API clients.
Ismael Celis
May 12, 2017
- Hypermedia
- API
- REST
- Ruby
Untangling Ruby Threads

Everyday uses for multi-threading with MRI.
Tom Wey
May 8, 2017
- Ruby
Following the Path

A journey into requiring files via $PATH and $LOAD_PATH.
Joël Quenneville
April 10, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Unix
Decorating ActiveRecord

Avoid some tricky edge cases when decorating ActiveRecord models.
Joël Quenneville
March 31, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
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