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  1. Trail Map

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

    Dan Croak
    May 29, 2012
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    • Git
    • Ruby
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    • PostgreSQL
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. I Suck at Testing

    Testing is widespread in the Rails community, which is awesome. For most new...

    Jason Draper
    May 4, 2012
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  6. FactoryBot 3.2: so awesome it needs to be released during RailsConf

    FactoryBot 3.2 brings a slew of new features; while I’d considered breaking...

    Josh Clayton
    April 24, 2012
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  7. Turnip: A Tasty Cucumber Alternative?

    We’ve used Cucumber heavily and successfully on client work, internal...

    Harlow Ward
    April 21, 2012
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  8. Testing a before_filter

    How to set up test suite for verifying a before_filter in Rails.

    Adarsh Pandit
    April 6, 2012
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  9. Factory Bot Hits 3.0!

    Factory Bot is now 3.0! It’s been a wonderful eight months and I’m really...

    Josh Clayton
    March 23, 2012
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  10. Do End Your Braces

    Braces and do/end are completely swappable—almost all the time. They have...

    Mike Burns
    March 19, 2012
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    • Ruby
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