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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
Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability

Improve test readability by leveraging RSpec’s matcher composition to make multiple assertions with a single matcher.
Josh Clayton
March 9, 2017
- Web
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
How to Skim a Pull Request

A list of keywords that give us pause.
Mike Burns
February 13, 2017
- Code
- Ruby
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