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Test-Driven Rails Helper

This is how I unit tested a view helper to format a date range in a view. I...
Dan Croak
October 15, 2009
- Web
- Testing
- Rails
Testing ActiveRecord Named Scopes

Everyone was psyched when Nick Kallen’s has_finder plugin was added to Rails...
Dan Croak
September 29, 2009
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Five Ridiculously Awesome Cucumber (and Webrat) Features

Cucumber, if you haven’t heard, is the Next Big Thing™. It affords...
Josh Clayton
September 16, 2009
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Zsh completion for your tests and specs

Got zsh? Loving your TATFT but tired of typing out all those spec commands?...
Jason Morrison
September 11, 2009
- Web
- Unix
- Testing
Tail Your Test Logs

How to get the most information out of your Rails logs.
Dan Croak
September 9, 2009
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Unix
Testing HTTP Errors With Ruby

A common pattern in our apps is handling failure by notifying Airbrake. A...
Dan Croak
September 6, 2009
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Airbrake
Testing Paperclip on S3 with Cucumber & Factory Bot

We’ve been using Heroku as a staging environment for our latest project. One...
Dan Croak
August 25, 2009
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Paperclip
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
assert rand() > 0.5

Yeah so you might think it’d be nice to hire a Femfatalatron as your...
Jason Morrison
August 25, 2009
- Web
- Testing
Cucumber Directory Convention

I’ve been organizing Cucumber features in Rails apps using a strict directory...
Dan Croak
August 17, 2009
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Why Do Rubyists Test So Completely?

The Ruby community, according to some data I am making up, has the strongest...
Mike Burns
August 14, 2009
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Good Code
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