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FactoryBot for Seed Data?

Occasionally, somebody recommends or asks about using FactoryBot to generate...
Josh Clayton
November 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Less Painful Heroku Deploys with Migrations

A Rails app running on Heroku must be restarted after migrating the database....
Joe Ferris
November 12, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Honey, I shrunk the internet! - Content Compression via Rack::Deflater

Speed is key. The snappier the site, the more visitors like you. Speed is so...
Dan Collis-Puro
November 12, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Performance
A Tour of Rails’ jQuery UJS

If you have a look at the default application.js file generated by Rails,...
Derek Prior
November 9, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
Catching Invalid JSON Parse Errors with Rack Middleware

There is a world where developers need never worry about poorly formatted...
Dan Collis-Puro
November 4, 2013
- Web
- Rails
A New Front-End Development Workshop from thoughtbot

We’re excited to announce our new online workshop, Best Practices for...
Lydia Damon
November 1, 2013
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Better Tests Through Internationalization

Internationalization (i18n) is the process of adapting computer software to...
Derek Prior
October 26, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Update Your Gems: Security Vulnerability in Cocaine

We were recently informed of a security vulnerability in cocaine, our gem for...
Jon Yurek
October 25, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Cocaine
Rails Rumble Roundup

Last weekend, two teams of thoughtbotters participated in the 2013 Rails...
Caleb Hearth
October 22, 2013
- News
- Web
How to Stub External Services in Tests

Requests to external services during test runs can cause several issues: ...
Harlow Ward
October 19, 2013
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
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