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Beginning Outside-In Rails Development with Cucumber and RSpec

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Jared Carroll

The RSpec Book defines outside-in Rails development as starting with views and working your way in toward the models. By developing from the outside in, you are always taking a client perspective at each layer of the application. The end … Continue reading →

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Modern Cucumber and Rails: No More Training Wheels

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Jared Carroll

Last month, cucumber-rails 1.1 was released. This release removed web_steps.rb, a collection of step definitions for interacting with a web app. For months, web_steps.rb contained a warning of its negative effects on feature maintenance. Like most developers, I ignored the … Continue reading →

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