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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
Building Custom RSpec Matchers with Regular Objects

RSpec custom matchers can be written using plain old objects.
Joël Quenneville
February 1, 2023
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
CI/CD: Automating Tests and Deployments the Fun Way

Running tests and managing deployments can be a tediously manual process or overwhelming to automate with all the available platforms and tools to choose from. We at thoughtbot want to share how our process has made CI/CD simple and enjoyable.
Victoria Guido and Christopher Kuttruff
January 30, 2023
- Kubernetes
- Testing
- Automation
- Git
- Deployment
- CI
- CI/CD
- AWS
- Docker
- Process
How to validate the presence of a boolean field in a Rails model

A subtle bug happens when validating the presence of boolean fields in Rails. Here’s how to find it before it hits production.
Stefanni Brasil
December 21, 2022
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
This week in #dev (Dec 2, 2022)

Running shell commands in Ruby, truly random numbers, fixing flaky tests, and how to get the most out of TypeScript.
thoughtbot
December 20, 2022
- This Week In Dev
- Testing
- Ruby
- TypeScript
- TIL
- Tip
Your flaky tests might be time dependent

Time dependent tests are difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms don’t present themselves until it’s too late. This article will help you determine if your test suite is time dependent.
Steve Polito
December 5, 2022
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.
Jeanine Soterwood
November 21, 2022
- Good Code
- TDD
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
- Technical Debt
Using a Dependency Graph to Visualize RSpec let

A visual answer to the question “what data is created when I execute this test?”.
Joël Quenneville
October 3, 2022
- Development
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
We need to talk about fixtures

How the principle of connascence will help us to move away from fixtures.
Matheus Sales
July 4, 2022
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