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Spork
Episode #285Sep 26, 201176 comments

Spork

Spork improves the loading time of your test suite by starting up your Rails application once in the background. Use it with Guard for the ultimate combo in fast feedback while doing TDD. (9 minutes)
Rack App from Scratch
Episode #317Jan 16, 201242 comments

Rack App from Scratch

Rack comes with many helpful utilities such as request and response objects, various middleware, and MockRequest for testing. Here I cover all of these while building a Rack app from scratch. (15 minutes)
Factories not Fixtures (revised)
Episode #158Oct 27, 201144 comments

Factories not Fixtures (revised)

Fixtures are external dependencies which can make tests brittle and difficult to read. In this episode I show how to use Factory Girl to generate the needed records directly in the tests. (9 minutes)
Pry with Rails
Episode #280Aug 22, 201178 comments

Pry with Rails

Pry is an alternative to IRB and sports many great features. Here I show how to integrate it into a Rails app, and how it can aid in debugging. (8 minutes)
A Shell-Scripting Story
Episode #309Dec 19, 201139 comments

A Shell-Scripting Story

This episode continues off of the previous episode on Oh My ZSH showing how to script Z Shell. Here I show how to write a Rake autocompletion script and cover a few more useful utilities. (10 minutes)
Contributing to Open Source
Episode #300Nov 21, 201141 comments

Contributing to Open Source

GitHub makes it easier than ever to contribute to open source with pull requests. Here I show how to submit a pull request to the VCR project. (9 minutes)
Publishing a Gem
Episode #303Nov 28, 201130 comments

Publishing a Gem

In this second part on making a gem, you will learn how to publish a gem by releasing it to rubygems.org, testing it through Travis CI, documenting it on RubyDoc.info, and advertising it on various sites. (11 minutes)
Guard
Episode #264May 02, 201157 comments

Guard

Guard watches files and runs a command after a file is modified. This allows you to automatically run tests in the background, restart your development server, reload the browser, and more. (8 minutes)
Metrics Metrics Metrics
Episode #252Feb 07, 201138 comments

Metrics Metrics Metrics

Metric Fu, Metrical, SimpleCov, Rails Best Practices, and more are covered in this episode on metrics. (7 minutes)
Gravatar
Episode #244Dec 13, 201040 comments

Gravatar

Gravatar is a service for providing user avatars. See how easy it is to use in Rails in this episode. (5 minutes)