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Updated Test-Driven Rails Videos

I’m happy to announce that we’ve updated the content for our popular...
Josh Clayton
November 18, 2014
- News
- Web
- Upcase
- Testing
- Rails
Speed Up JavaScript Capybara Specs by Blacklisting URLs

Speed up your tests by telling Capybara WebKit not to hit external APIs.
Simon Taranto
November 14, 2014
- Web
- Testing
- Performance
Validating JSON Schemas with an RSpec Matcher

Use RSpec and JSON Schema to create a test-driven process in which changes to the structure of your JSON API drive the implementation of new features.
Laila Winner
September 23, 2014
- Web
- JSON
- Ruby
- RSpec
- Testing
Write Reliable, Asynchronous Integration Tests With Capybara

We’ve come to rely on integration tests as part of a balanced testing...
Joe Ferris
September 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Testing
Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction

Each acceptance test tells a story: a logical progression through a task...
Josh Clayton
September 2, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Speed Up Tests by Selectively Avoiding Factory Bot

Learn one simple way to speed up your tests with the factory_bot gem!
Josh Clayton
August 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Segment.io and Ruby

Use Segment.io’s Ruby library to track usage patterns within a Rails application.
Josh Clayton
July 30, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Analytics
Testing from the Outside-In

A few months ago my colleague Josh Steiner wrote a comprehensive post on How...
Joël Quenneville
June 9, 2014
- Web
- Testing
Refactoring with an Apprentice

Walk through a refactoring of Ruby on Rails test code and observe lessons in Rails idioms, setting up only necessary test data, and extracting methods.
Eric Allen
May 19, 2014
- Web
- Good Code
- Testing
- Apprenticeship
Document Explicit Dependencies Through Tests

Split your spec_helper.rb file into a minimal spec_helper.rb file and a rails_helper.rb file to load only the necessary dependencies in a spec. This is now the default in Rails.
Greg Lazarev
May 6, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
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