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RubyTapas Freebie: The End of Mocking

At the borders of our systems, mockist testing hits a point of diminishing returns. In this free episode we take a look at when to stop mocking and start integration…

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Technologies Videos April 22, 2013

Making a Mockery of TDD

I made this gnomic remark on Twitter the other day: To be a successful mockist, you must dislike mocks. A lot of people re-tweeted it, so I guess I’m not…

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Uncategorized September 6, 2011

Complex Hash Expectations in RSpec

When spec-ing something that calls method which takes a set of nested hashes (as many Rails methods do), it may be tempting to use #hash_including: to test for only the…

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Technologies Uncategorized October 28, 2008

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