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Write Reliable, Asynchronous Integration Tests With Capybara

We’ve come to rely on integration tests as part of a balanced testing...
Joe Ferris
September 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Testing
Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction

Each acceptance test tells a story: a logical progression through a task...
Josh Clayton
September 2, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Speed Up Tests by Selectively Avoiding Factory Bot

Learn one simple way to speed up your tests with the factory_bot gem!
Josh Clayton
August 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Segment.io and Ruby

Use Segment.io’s Ruby library to track usage patterns within a Rails application.
Josh Clayton
July 30, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Analytics
Testing from the Outside-In

A few months ago my colleague Josh Steiner wrote a comprehensive post on How...
Joël Quenneville
June 9, 2014
- Web
- Testing
Refactoring with an Apprentice

Walk through a refactoring of Ruby on Rails test code and observe lessons in Rails idioms, setting up only necessary test data, and extracting methods.
Eric Allen
May 19, 2014
- Web
- Good Code
- Testing
- Apprenticeship
Document Explicit Dependencies Through Tests

Split your spec_helper.rb file into a minimal spec_helper.rb file and a rails_helper.rb file to load only the necessary dependencies in a spec. This is now the default in Rails.
Greg Lazarev
May 6, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Test Driving iOS - A Primer

Using Specta, Expecta, and OCMock, we’ll take a look at how we can test-drive our iOS apps in Objective-C.
Gordon Fontenot
April 16, 2014
- iOS
- Testing
Shoulda Matchers 2.6.0

Announcing the latest version of Shoulda Matchers, now ready for Rails 4.1.
Elliot Winkler
April 14, 2014
- News
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Testing
- Shoulda
Back to Basics: Writing Unit Tests First

Step-by-step instructions for learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Ruby. There’s nothing to fear! It’s fun.
Britt Ballard
April 7, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
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