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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
Modeling a Paginated API as a Lazy Stream

Pagination of APIs is a performance optimization trick. As a consumer, you may want to model things with a lazy stream instead.
Joël Quenneville
March 29, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
Testing Third Party Interactions

How to test integrations with a third-party API.
Joël Quenneville
March 15, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
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