Factory pattern with syntactic sugar
Dan Manges has a nice write-up on why the factory pattern is better than Rails fixtures: Rails: Fixin’ Fixtures with Factory. The factory is used to create v...
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Dynamically generating FlexUnit test suite
I have been working with Flex recently, which is a framework for building Flash applications. The standard testing framework for Flex is FlexUnit. A good exa...
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Alphabetize schema.rb columns
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Reducing build time
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