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8 New Steps for Fixing Other People's Code

Way back in mid-2007, when Rails 1.2 was the new hotness and GitHub was still...
Alex Grant
September 15, 2012
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- Open Source
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Testing Your Factories First

Have you ever added a seemingly innocent validation to a model, like so:...
Reade Harris
September 6, 2012
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Using the Draper Gem, Round One

Draper is a handy new gem for extracting logic normally held in helpers and...
Josh Clayton
August 23, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Creating a URL String in Ruby

Josh Clayton recently posted about Mind Bending Factories – demonstrating...
Matt Jankowski
August 3, 2012
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- Ruby
- Testing
Faking CoreLocation... Inconceivable!

I decided to get more familiar with integration testing iOS applications. In...
Matt Mongeau
August 3, 2012
- Testing
- iOS
Mind-Bending Factories

People often forget that FactoryBot1 is just using Ruby to instantiate...
Josh Clayton
July 31, 2012
- Web
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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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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Describe the User's Perspective: DDD, acceptance testing, and you

Learn about the user first.
Mike Burns
June 22, 2012
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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
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