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Dealing with flaky tests

Flaky tests waste your team’s time. Have a process for quarantining them and debugging them.
Dimiter Petrov
May 27, 2024
- Testing
Faster Tests With Capybara and Request Specs

System specs are cool, but can be slow and flaky. Request specs can be good enough if you add the right seasoning to them.
Matheus Richard
April 15, 2024
- Rails
- Testing
- Capybara
Upcoming Talks at Ruby Conferences in Spring and Summer 2024

Join us in anticipating exciting talks for spring and summer of 2024. Discover new lessons, shared experiences and breakthroughs from senior and principal thoughtbot developers!
Elyse Hadid
April 12, 2024
- Rails
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- Testing
- Turbo
- Events
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This Week in #dev (Feb 9, 2024)

Speed up your tests, a nice SQL trick, and a Jest global that you might not know about.
thoughtbot
February 19, 2024
- This Week In Dev
- Databases
- Rails
- Testing
- Jest
- Performance
This week in #dev (Jul 7, 2023)

Highlights of what happened in thoughtbot’s #dev channel on Slack this week.
thoughtbot
July 19, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- Rails
- Ruby
- Git
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This Week in #dev (Apr 7, 2023)

Eliminating dead code, obsolete methods, and mysterious test failures on newest Rails.
thoughtbot
April 14, 2023
- This Week In Dev
- TIL
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Ruby
- Testing
A journey towards better Ruby on Rails testing practices

Testing Ruby on Rails and avoiding RSpec and FactoryBot anti-patterns.
Rémy Hannequin
March 14, 2023
- Testing
- Ruby
- Development
- Factory
- Ruby On Rails
- RSpec
- Factory Bot
Stubbles - Stubbing and Doubles innit. 🧔

Confession: I’ve always struggled to understand the difference between stubbing and doubles…
Sami Birnbaum
March 10, 2023
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
How to stub Feature Flags with RSpec

Are your feature flags states leaking between your test cases? Stub them all to make your test suite more reliable. Here’s how.
Stefanni Brasil and Elias Rodrigues
February 3, 2023
- Testing
- RSpec
- Rails
- Web
Avoid Merging RSpec "Focused" Tests

Use RSpec’s Focus filter without fear of accidentally turning CI into a single-test false positive.
Stephanie Viccari
February 2, 2023
- RSpec
- Testing
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