decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s...

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Mockito is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with clean & simple API. Mockito...

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Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

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