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

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.

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

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

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

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.

So, the RSpec book is almost out of beta. I’ve been through parts of it off and on over the last couple years, and I can highly recommend it. Through the book, as an example of building a real application with the BDD workflow, a codebreaker game is created. The rules are simple: the computer [...]

Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode.

We add pagination using will_paginate to the search results fetched from Twitter.

We take the search results that were fetched using Twitter in episode 8 and display them on the dashboard.