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  1. What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

    Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.

    Jeanine Soterwood
    November 21, 2022
    • Good Code
    • TDD
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    • Rails
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    • Technical Debt
  2. Simplifying Tests by Extracting Side-Effects

    Test-driven development, object-oriented design, and functional programming converge on some similar ideas.

    Joël Quenneville
    February 18, 2021
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • TDD
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    • Functional Programming
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  3. Type-Driven Design, Test-Driven Design

    TDD purism belongs to the world of dynamic typing.

    Mike Burns
    February 8, 2021
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    • Testing
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  4. TDDing in React with Apollo and TypeScript

    Pointers for doing TDD with React using Apollo and TypeScript.

    Alejandro Dustet
    June 25, 2019
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    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • GraphQL
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  5. Teaming up with Codecademy to bring you Test-Driven Development

    Introducing an intensive course for building full-stack Web apps with test-driven development.

    George Brocklehurst and Sean Doyle
    January 19, 2018
    • TDD
    • Learning
  6. Email confirmation with Clearance

    Leverage Clearance’s guards to add email confirmation to your Rails app.

    Tute Costa
    December 23, 2015
    • Clearance
    • TDD
    • Web
  7. Test Drive Your Dockerfiles with RSpec and ServerSpec

    Learn to TDD your Dockerfiles with RSpec and ServerSpec.

    Mason Fischer
    February 17, 2015
    • Docker
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    • Unix
  8. Write a Vim Plugin with TDD

    Write a Vim plugin with confidence using TDD.

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    August 15, 2014
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