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How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development? Someone asks...
Dan Croak
May 29, 2012
- News
- Web
- Git
- Ruby
- Rails
- 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
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
From the Trajectory Blog: Full Featured JSON API Now Available

From Mission Control, the Trajectory blog: We’ve just published full...
May 22, 2012
- News
- Trajectory
Designing for Touch

How to think about design on touch screens.
Reda Lemeden
May 18, 2012
- Design
- iOS
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
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Types of Coupling

Those of you coming from a Google search are about to be disappointed.
Ben Orenstein
May 15, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Beware Homonyms

When you name a class, choose a name that’s unlikely to refer more than one...
Ben Orenstein
May 13, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
SHOULDA BEEN GONE

We haven’t been taking pull requests on shoulda-matchers as much as we...
Gabe Berke-Williams
May 12, 2012
- Web
- Open Source
- Shoulda
Read between the lines

Don’t try to cram too much into a small space.
Joe Ferris
May 10, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
Use Factory Bot's build_stubbed for a Faster Test Suite

Want to speed up your test suite? Reduce the number of objects persisted to...
Josh Clayton
May 9, 2012
- Web
- Open Source
- Rails
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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