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  1. Testing Named Scope

    We’re huge fans of NamedScope here at thoughtbot. It does wonders for finder...

    Tammer Saleh
    July 29, 2008
    • News
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  2. A HTTP Testing Proxy

    Hoptoad—which is now live—is both an application and a Rails plugin that must...

    Mike Burns
    July 25, 2008
    • Web
    • Testing
  3. Waiting For a Factory~~Girl~~Bot

    Introducing a gem to create test data via factories.

    Joe Ferris
    June 6, 2008
    • News
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
  4. Testing Paperclip with Shoulda

    Josh Susser had a bunch of great things to say about Shoulda in his RailsConf...

    Tammer Saleh
    June 3, 2008
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Paperclip
    • Shoulda
  5. Shoulda 4.0.1 - the lean and mean release

    Shoulda is a great tool for cleaning up your tests, but there was always...

    Tammer Saleh
    March 3, 2008
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    • Shoulda
  6. not worth it

    Behaviour-Driven Development. The latest fad thats been around for a while...

    Jared Carroll
    January 7, 2008
    • Web
    • Testing
  7. Shhh! Your Test::Unit backtraces are too noisy!

    Noisy backtraces make problems hard to spot.

    Dan Croak
    December 3, 2007
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    • Ruby
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  8. testing your tests

    Recently I was taking a look at my tests and noticed some things. I’ve been...

    Jared Carroll
    November 1, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  9. its not your responsibility

    Sometimes in Rails you ask yourself: how do I test this? One example is...

    Jared Carroll
    September 19, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  10. time to step up

    Testing views in Rails applications.

    Jared Carroll
    September 16, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
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