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We upgrade the URLAgg project to Rails 3 and get the Rails console and server to load and run all the specs. Watch this screencast

Every good project needs a good setup. In this episode, I set up a github repo, create a new rails application, hook in Cucumber and Rspec, write a Cucumber feature, and write the code to make it pass. Watch this screencast

RSpec gives us many powerful tools to make our tests readable. Matchers allow us to provide custom predicates to our should statements that succinctly define the behavior of our code. Watch this screencast

Launching a new series: URLAgg updates. We upgrade URLAgg to the latest gems and migrate from using config.gem to Gem Bundler. Watch this screencast

We escape multi-word search terms before querying Google Blog Search. Watch this screencast

RSpec provides an extremely concise way of representing simple tests to be called on new instances of a class or on explicitly defined receiver objects. You can do this by using 'subjects' either as defined by the 'describe' or the 'subject' methods. Watch this screencast

We refactor the association between Brand and Search so we don’t run the search for duplicate search terms. Watch this screencast

We add the capability to filter search results based on the brand they belong to and the source they came from. Watch this screencast

We add logic to avoid fetching duplicate search results from Google Blog search. Watch this screencast

We remove duplicates from our Twitter search results by remembering the ID of the last result and only fetching tweets that have occurred since then. Watch this screencast