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Eliot Sykes

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Eliot Sykes' archived Ruby on Rails tutorials on testing, security, background jobs, and developer tools. Latest feed post: July 2017.

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  • Real World Rails Background Jobs #RubyOnRails #BackgroundJobs #DeveloperTools

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    Jul 7, 2017
  • Testing a New Page Loaded (or not) with Capybara #RubyOnRails #Testing #Capybara

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    Apr 5, 2017
  • How to Get Production-like Error Responses in Your Rails Tests #RubyOnRails #SoftwareTesting #DevTools

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    Mar 8, 2017
  • How to Cleanly Test Rails Rake Tasks with RSpec #Ruby #RSpec #DevTools

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    Feb 27, 2017
  • Faster RSpec: Profiling FactoryGirl #Ruby #RSpec #DevTools

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    Feb 20, 2017
  • RSpec Refactoring Patterns: Extract Matcher #Ruby #Testing #Refactoring

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    Feb 1, 2017
  • Testing CodeMirror Editor with Capybara & RSpec #RubyOnRails #Testing #DeveloperTools

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    Nov 18, 2016
  • Note to Self: Scroll to the End of the README #RubyOnRails #SoftwareDevelopment #BestPractices

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    Sep 26, 2016
  • Run bundler-audit Regularly on Your Rails Apps with Rake #Ruby #Security #DevTools

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    Jan 27, 2016
  • Beat Spec File Name Blunders #Ruby #RSpec #SoftwareDevelopment

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    Jan 22, 2016
  • Testing EpicEditor with Capybara & RSpec #RubyOnRails #Testing #DeveloperTools

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    Jan 3, 2016
  • JavaScript Debugging for Rubyists #Ruby #JavaScript #DevTools

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    Sep 24, 2015
  • Testing Ace Editor with Capybara & RSpec #Ruby #Testing #DevTools

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    Sep 8, 2015
  • Debug Rails Faster with Quiet Assets & Quieter Logs #RubyOnRails #DeveloperTools #Productivity

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    Sep 2, 2015
  • The Big List of View Specs #RubyOnRails #Testing #Developer

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    Aug 25, 2015
  • Magic Numbers in Ruby & How You Make Them Disappear #Ruby #Programming #CodeQuality

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    Aug 18, 2015