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Deprecating static attributes in factory_bot 4.11

Static attributes have been the source of much confusion over the years. Their deprecation will come with a rubocop-rspec Cop to automatically replace with dynamic attributes.
Daniel Colson
August 16, 2018
- Factory Bot
- Open Source
- Testing
- Ruby
Deprecating Paperclip

We are deprecating Paperclip in favor of ActiveStorage. Learn what this means for you.
Mike Burns
May 14, 2018
- News
- Paperclip
- Ruby
Using `yield_self` for composable ActiveRecord relations

On the code-changing magic of yield_self.
Derek Prior
March 13, 2018
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Renaming Cocaine to Terrapin

We’re renaming the Cocaine gem to Terrapin.
Jon Yurek
January 22, 2018
- Ruby
- Rename
- Cocaine
- Terrapin
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
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