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Better Acceptance Tests with Page Objects

Use a Page Object to improve acceptance readability.
Josh Clayton
November 15, 2012
- Web
- RSpec
- Testing
Take an Online Test-Driven Rails Workshop with thoughtbot

We’ve opened registration for our new online Test-Driven Rails workshop,...
Chad Pytel
November 14, 2012
- News
- Web
- Upcase
A Healthy Bundle

If you’re writing Rails applications today, then you’re probably enjoying...
Joe Ferris
November 14, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
Code that says why it does

A new developer joins a project, and asks in Campfire: “what is the purpose...
Ben Orenstein
November 9, 2012
- Good Code
Xcode Build Settings Part 1: Preprocessing

How to debug some Xcode errors related to preprocessing.
Gordon Fontenot
November 3, 2012
- iOS
Using Capybara to Test JavaScript that Makes HTTP Requests

Testing an application that integrates with an HTTP service can be tricky: ...
Joe Ferris
November 1, 2012
- Web
- JavaScript
- Testing
Let's Not

How using this popular RSpec technique can sometimes do more harm than good.
Joe Ferris
October 31, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Good Code
Version 1.0 of Bourbon Neat, a Sass-based responsive grid framework

When we released Neat—a semantic grid framework built on top of Sass and...
Reda Lemeden
October 30, 2012
- Neat
- Bourbon
- Sass
- Open Source
- News
- Design
This Week in Open Source

High Voltage High Voltage is a Rails engine for static pages. ...
Adarsh Pandit
October 29, 2012
- News
- Open Source
End-to-End Testing with RSpec Integration Tests and Capybara

Stability can become an issue as web applications evolve and grow –...
Harlow Ward
October 26, 2012
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
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