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  1. Unpopular Developer 5: Stop Unit Testing Your Scaffold Controllers

    This goes out to all the veteran Ruby on Rails developers: those who have the...

    Mike Burns
    August 12, 2009
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  2. Spy vs Spy

    We’ve recently been making use of an alternative to the traditional...

    Joe Ferris
    August 6, 2009
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  3. Mystery Guest

    The xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code book has an ASTOUNDING amount...

    Dan Croak
    July 28, 2009
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  4. Make your test suite UNCOMFORTABLY FAST!

    Are your test suites slow? Do you continually refactor your test suites so...

    Jason Morrison
    July 24, 2009
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  5. Success Driven Development

    Are you following the Ruby Maturity Model, fully leveraging Agile...

    Jason Morrison
    April 1, 2009
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  6. Testing Rake's Integration

    So now you’re integration testing, because that’s what cool kids are doing...

    Mike Burns
    March 20, 2009
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  7. Shoulda 2.10: time for a little love for ActionController

    Shoulda’s ActiveRecord macros received some well-deserved attention in...

    Joe Ferris
    March 4, 2009
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  8. Mixing Cucumber with Test::Unit/Shoulda

    I don’t know if cucumber is a fruit or vegetable There’s a lot...

    Joe Ferris
    February 20, 2009
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  9. FactoryBot 1.2: Adding Excitement to Stale Factories

    Some like it hot The FactoryBot syntax was designed to balance...

    Joe Ferris
    February 17, 2009
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  10. Speculating with Shoulda

    Shoulda used RSpec Shoulda’s users have long enjoyed the...

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    February 3, 2009
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