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Localized external services

Common situation: you need to hit an external API. Common solution: mock it...
Mike Burns
May 13, 2010
- Web
- Testing
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
Cucumber, Webrat, HTTP auth, and your API

How to use the basic_auth method in Cucumber specs.
Jason Morrison
April 16, 2010
- Web
- Testing
Write Fewer Regular Expressions

How to avoid regex in Cucumber steps.
Mike Burns
March 5, 2010
- Testing
Recipe: Google Calendar

A tutorial for consuming Google Calendar data in Ruby.
Dan Croak
February 15, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
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
Stubbing and Setting Expectations on HTTP Requests Is Now Easy With WebMock

Use Webmock to mock HTTP requests to external services in a simple and predictable way.
Bartosz Blimke
November 24, 2009
- RSpec
- Ruby
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- New Bamboo
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Factory Bot Callbacks

Factory Bot now has callbacks thanks to Nate Sutton. There are three...
Dan Croak
November 23, 2009
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- Factory Girl
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Sharing assertions between Cucumber and Test::Unit

Integrating testing tools with shared code.
Jason Morrison
October 23, 2009
- Web
- Testing
Have You Ever... Faked It?

I’ll admit it - I’ve faked it. Sometimes, you just can’t wait for a service...
Joe Ferris
October 21, 2009
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
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