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  1. thoughtbot and the Holy Grail

    Update: Our quest for full-stack testing continued with writing the...

    Chad Pytel
    November 23, 2010
    • Web
    • Testing
    • JavaScript
  2. What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do

    Sometimes, test driven development is really annoying, and the abundance of...

    Emma Lindsay
    July 23, 2010
    • Web
    • Testing
  3. Test Time Bombs

    Testing with times and dates have come a long way, now that Timecop is...

    Nick Quaranto
    July 2, 2010
    • Web
    • Testing
  4. This should_change your mind

    There’s been a bunch of hullabaloo about our recent deprecation of the...

    Josh Clayton
    June 24, 2010
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Shoulda
  5. Localized external services

    Common situation: you need to hit an external API. Common solution: mock it...

    Mike Burns
    May 13, 2010
    • Web
    • Testing
  6. Unit and Functional Tests are as Useful as 100% Code Coverage

    Note: code samples updated October 25, 2012 I’m going to try and...

    Josh Clayton
    April 26, 2010
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  7. Cucumber, Webrat, HTTP auth, and your API

    How to use the basic_auth method in Cucumber specs.

    Jason Morrison
    April 16, 2010
    • Web
    • Testing
  8. Write Fewer Regular Expressions

    How to avoid regex in Cucumber steps.

    Mike Burns
    March 5, 2010
    • Testing
  9. Recipe: Google Calendar

    A tutorial for consuming Google Calendar data in Ruby.

    Dan Croak
    February 15, 2010
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
  10. Factory Bot step definitions for Cucumber

    Did you know… Factory Bot includes some steps for your integration testing...

    Dan Croak
    December 15, 2009
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
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