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Mind-Bending Factories

People often forget that FactoryBot1 is just using Ruby to instantiate...
Josh Clayton
July 31, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Open Source
Always Define respond_to_missing? When Overriding method_missing

method_missing is still considered scary, but here’s something more scary:...
Mike Burns
July 30, 2012
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- Ruby
Name It

There will be Ruby in the middle of this blog post. But first, a tangent in...
Mike Burns
July 24, 2012
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- Ruby
- Good Code
Tell, Don't Ask

And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department. ...
Ben Orenstein
July 19, 2012
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- Ruby
- Good Code
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryBot's Cucumber Steps

For almost three years now, FactoryBot1 has provided developers using...
Josh Clayton
June 25, 2012
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- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Trail Map

How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development? Someone asks...
Dan Croak
May 29, 2012
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Remove Duplication with FactoryBot's Traits

FactoryBot’s traits are an outstanding way to DRY up your tests and factories...
Josh Clayton
May 24, 2012
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Types of Coupling

Those of you coming from a Google search are about to be disappointed.
Ben Orenstein
May 15, 2012
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- Ruby
- Good Code
Come Correct with Inject and Collect

Here’s a refactoring example for a simple Ruby math problem using the inject...
Adarsh Pandit
May 3, 2012
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- Ruby
- Good Code
Time.now Is On My Side

I needed an open? method. First try: def open? opens_at < Time.now <...
Dan Croak
April 16, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
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