RubyOnRails testing antipatterns

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RubyOnRails testing antipatterns

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RubyOnRails testing antipatterns

When preparing our test suite we might be tempted to make some shortcuts that will render our tests less readable, comprehensible or will significantly decrease the flexibility of further implementation

Ruby

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Rails

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Beyond Ruby

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Blast from the past

Do you smoke test?

I broke Discourse yesterday. Not in the “its just a little bit broken sense”. Instead, in the absolutely everything is broken and every page returns a 500 error code, sense.

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