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Hello and welcome to the first OmbuCast by OmbuLabs. In this screencast we’ll be taking a look at...
One of the hardest failing tests to debug are those which fail randomly, also known as “flaky” tests. You write your test cases, you run...
I have been using the capybara-webkit gem for a while now since I first tried it out after making the switch from Capybara +...
How many times did you come across a great gem you wanted to try out in a production console, like benchmark-ips or awesome-print?
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When working on a Rails project, you may have seen present? calls on ActiveRecord relationships. This might feel natural, mostly because <code class="language-plaintext...
A few weeks ago, I noticed weird output in the RSpec test suite (~4000 tests) for a Rails application:
When writing tests for services, you may sometimes want to use mock objects instead of real objects. In case you’re using ActiveRecord and real objects,...
A few times in the past I’ve had to interact with IMAP via Ruby, and wrapping your head around its API is not so easy....
A few weeks ago, I found an interesting project called Bumbler. If your project uses Bundler, Bumbler shows you your project’s largest dependencies. When...
Recently, we started using Skylight in production for one of our clients’ Rails applications, in an attempt to try to improve the performance of...
Hubot makes it incredibly easy to setup on a Heroku server, by taking advantage of its Procfile support. Simply running git push...
We have been using Slack at OmbuLabs for a while now after switching from HipChat, and haven’t looked back. It looks and feels much...
default_scope is a method provided by ActiveRecord, which allows you to set a default scope (as its name implies) for all operations done...
Often, Enumerable#select is the chosen method to obtain elements from an Array for a given block. Without thinking twice, we may be doing...
If you are using git in 2015, you are probably also using Github, unless you’re self-hosting or still betting on Bitbucket.
Below are...
