factory_girl 1.2: adding excitement to stale factories — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS

We recently decided our CI server needed an overhaul. I really enjoyed Integrity as a build server, but after trying out Hudson it’s hard to say I want to go back. Hudson has several huge advantages.

ShamRack mounts a Rack app locally, just for your tests. It goes one further: it “mounts” it using Net::HTTP such that requests to the Rack app never hit any network.

We didn’t want to leave front-end developers in the dark when their Javascript throws errors, so we’ve added a Hoptoad notifier for Javascript!

The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it splits a word at period characters.

Since the tokenizer has near-zero configuration options (minimum word length and stopwords list), you n...

When you want to look up a class for a given factory, do it like this:

>> FactoryBot.factories.find('admin').build_class
=> User

In older versions, you could do:

>> FactoryBot.factory_by_name('admin').build_class
=> User

Tests are about 100% control over UI interaction and your test scenario. Randomness makes writing tests hard. You will also push tests that are green for you today, but red for a colleague tomorrow.

That said, please don't do something like this:...

This guide shows how to create an AngularJS application that consumes more and more memory until, eventually, the browser process crashes on your users.

Although this guide has been written for Angular 1 originally, most of the advice is relevant...