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FactoryBot for Seed Data?

Occasionally, somebody recommends or asks about using FactoryBot to generate...
Josh Clayton
November 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Less Painful Heroku Deploys with Migrations

A Rails app running on Heroku must be restarted after migrating the database....
Joe Ferris
November 12, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Honey, I shrunk the internet! - Content Compression via Rack::Deflater

Speed is key. The snappier the site, the more visitors like you. Speed is so...
Dan Collis-Puro
November 12, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Performance
Update Your Gems: Security Vulnerability in Cocaine

We were recently informed of a security vulnerability in cocaine, our gem for...
Jon Yurek
October 25, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Cocaine
How to Stub External Services in Tests

Requests to external services during test runs can cause several issues: ...
Harlow Ward
October 19, 2013
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
Parallel Gem Installing Using Bundler

Do you realize how much time you’ve spent running bundle install? ] No more...
Prem Sichanugrist
August 28, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Use RSpec.vim with tmux and Dispatch

(And Keep Your Screen Real Estate) As you may know, there are...
Caleb Hearth
August 12, 2013
- Web
- Vim
- Ruby
- Testing
- tmux
- Open Source
Running Specs from Vim, Sent to tmux via Tslime

When I first started working at thoughtbot, I was impressed to see some of my...
Joël Quenneville
August 8, 2013
- Web
- tmux
- Vim
- Ruby
- Testing
How to Create Postgres Indexes Concurrently in ActiveRecord Migrations

By default, Postgres locks writes (but not reads) to a table while creating...
Dan Croak
July 30, 2013
- Web
- PostgreSQL
- Ruby
Taming Factory Bot List Creation

There are times in your tests when you need to create multiple instances of...
Derek Prior
July 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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