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Short, Explicit Test Setups

You probably know about this Factory Bot1 definition syntax:...
Dan Croak
March 12, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
How To Use Arguments In a Rake Task

I came across this today. You can write Rake tasks that accept arguments,...
Chad Pytel
February 23, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Unix
Derive #inject for a better understanding

Let’s talk about Enumerable#inject. It’s special to me. In other cultures...
Mike Burns
February 17, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
How to Apply What You've Learned from TDD to Writing Data Migrations

After doing TDD full time for years, I have a hard time writing code without...
Joe Ferris
February 13, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
Convert Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 Hash Syntax

Using Vim or your shell, convert old-school hashes into new-school hashes.
Dan Croak
February 11, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Vim
Use Bundler's binstubs!

If you’re not using bundler’s binstubs with RVM integration yet, you should...
Gabe Berke-Williams
January 5, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
Tidy Views and Beyond with Decorators

The problem Here’s a view serving monkeys#show. What’s wrong...
Harold Giménez
December 2, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Rails
- Good Code
How to find a time format for Ruby's strftime

Have you written a web application lately? If so, I bet you’ve been using...
Joe Ferris
November 16, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
The One-Method Silent Killer in Your Cucumber Suite

A regular expression bug in selector_for.
Jason Morrison
November 3, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Good Code
Design Patterns in the Wild: Null Object

I knocked out a pretty decent refactoring of some of the internals of Factory...
Josh Clayton
November 1, 2011
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- Ruby
- Testing
- Good Code
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