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  1. 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
  2. Creating a URL String in Ruby

    Josh Clayton recently posted about Mind Bending Factories – demonstrating...

    Matt Jankowski
    August 3, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
  3. Faking CoreLocation... Inconceivable!

    I decided to get more familiar with integration testing iOS applications. In...

    Matt Mongeau
    August 3, 2012
    • Testing
    • iOS
  4. Mind-Bending Factories

    People often forget that FactoryBot1 is just using Ruby to instantiate...

    Josh Clayton
    July 31, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Open Source
  5. 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
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  6. Describe the User's Perspective: DDD, acceptance testing, and you

    Learn about the user first.

    Mike Burns
    June 22, 2012
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    • Playbook
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  7. Trail Map

    How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development? Someone asks...

    Dan Croak
    May 29, 2012
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    • PostgreSQL
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  8. 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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    • Ruby
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  9. Get Your Callbacks On with Factory Bot 3.3

    FactoryBot 3.3.0 was released this weekend with a slew of improvements. To...

    Josh Clayton
    May 15, 2012
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  10. Use Factory Bot's build_stubbed for a Faster Test Suite

    Want to speed up your test suite? Reduce the number of objects persisted to...

    Josh Clayton
    May 9, 2012
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