Tag Archives: tdd

Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests!

Posted by on February 2, 2012 40 comments

It really surprises me that there are people arguing that writing controller tests doesn’t make sense. Probably the most common argument is that actions are covered in acceptence tests along with checking if views are properly rendered. Right? Right…well that’s …

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Making ActiveRecord Models Thin

Posted by on August 1, 2011 20 comments

“Skinny Controller, Fat Model” is a well known best practice in Ruby community. Everybody seems to agree with it and follows it. It’s pretty clear what a skinny controller is. The question is what is a fat model and what …

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Custom RSpec-2 Matchers

Posted by on January 14, 2011 5 comments

RSpec is one of my favorite tools. I have literally fallen in love with this fantastic BDD library, especially with its second version. While using RSpec I realized it teaches me how to write tests. Yes, exactly – learning RSpec …

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