Recent Episodes
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159
More on Cucumber
There's more to Cucumber than was shown in episode 155. Learn how to refactor complex scenarios in this episode.
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158
Factories Not Fixtures Other translations:
Fixtures can make tests brittle and difficult to read. A better alternative is to use factories to create the necessary objects.
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157
RSpec Matchers and Macros
Improve readability and remove duplication in RSpec by making use of matchers and macros.
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156
Webrat
Using Webrat allows you to write integration tests in Ruby, rather than in English as you would with Cucumber.
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155
Beginning With Cucumber Other translations:
Cucumber is a testing framework that lets you develop with Behaviour-Driven Development. We develop a new application using BDD in this episode.
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154
Polymorphic Association Other translations:
Polymorphic associations can be a little tricky to understand. In this episode we'll show you how to create one and use it in controllers and views.
Tags: active-record routing
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153
PDFs With Prawn
With Prawn and Prawnto you can easily generate PDF files in your Rails application.
Tags: plugins
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152
Rails 2.3 extras
A round of some of the smaller new feaures in Rails 2.3 to finish the short series on Rails 2.3.
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151
Rack Middleware
Rack middleware provides a way to filter a request and response in your application. We use it to modify the application's response body.
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150
Rails Metal
Rails Metal lets you bypass the normal Rails request process and speed up frequently called requests.
Tags: rails-23 performance