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Tell, Don't Ask

And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department. ...
Ben Orenstein
July 19, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryBot's Cucumber Steps

For almost three years now, FactoryBot1 has provided developers using...
Josh Clayton
June 25, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
How Much Should I Refactor?

The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID...
Joe Ferris
June 25, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
Backbone.js on Rails hits 1.0

Almost 1 year ago, on July 18, 2011, we announced our book, Backbone.js on...
Chad Pytel
June 23, 2012
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- JavaScript
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Olympic Medal Rivalry

Answering questions using the medal results of the 2012 Olympic Games.
Makoto Inoue
June 22, 2012
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Ask the Giant Robots

Have a question for us about code, software development methodologies,...
Chad Pytel
June 6, 2012
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Clearance 0.16.3 fixes a password reset vulnerability

A new clearance version works around a Rails security bug.
Mike Burns
June 1, 2012
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- Rails
- Open Source
- Clearance
Trail Map

How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development? Someone asks...
Dan Croak
May 29, 2012
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- PostgreSQL
- Testing
- Unix
- Vim
Remove Duplication with FactoryBot's Traits

FactoryBot’s traits are an outstanding way to DRY up your tests and factories...
Josh Clayton
May 24, 2012
- Web
- Open Source
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- Ruby
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Get Your Callbacks On with Factory Bot 3.3

FactoryBot 3.3.0 was released this weekend with a slew of improvements. To...
Josh Clayton
May 15, 2012
- Web
- Open Source
- Rails
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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